The Moderating Role Of Government Support On The Effect Of SME’s Internal Factors On Export Performance
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Date
2018-05
Authors
Lee, Ming Huoy
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
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Food processing industry is considered as a value-added business to the Malaysian economy. This research address theoretical framework to describe the relationship between firm characteristics, management characteristics, labour productivity, innovation and moderating effect of government support for food processing SMEs export performance. The new conceptual framework, its help firms to determine the factors that contribute to the success in export performance and effectiveness of government support to food processing SMEs. Results indicate that food processing firms' export performance positively related to firm characteristics, management characteristic, labour productivity and innovation. With the moderating effect of government support, shows a significant positive relationship between management characteristic and labour productivity towards export performance. Government support is important to the strengthen food processing SMEs’ export performance, by helping to improve the firms’ management characteristics and labour productivity. The government support performs by government agencies create a platform and provide sufficient source to expand networking, management skills and labour skills. Hypothesis result shows government support not having a positive moderating effect on firm characteristics and innovation towards export performance, therefore effort from the government in providing effective support to firm characteristic and innovation is required. The research model is tested using the Partial Least Squared (PLS) technique. The quantitative method was employed in completing this thesis.
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Government support on the effect of , SME’S internal factors on export performance