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Go big or stay home? Korean machinery firms, trade fair dynamics and export performance

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  • Ronald V. Kalafsky
  • Douglas R. Gress

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With heightened global competition, many manufacturers export as a process by which to increase sales and expand into new markets. South Korean manufacturers export in order to expand outside of a small domestic market, but confront the constraints of many exporters (especially smaller firms), including access to market intelligence and geographically distant prospective customers. This article examines efforts by machine tool manufacturers to minimize the friction of distance involved with exporting through the use of international trade fairs. Analytical emphases are placed on the influence of individual export destinations and on the role of firm size vis-�-vis firm export intensities and overall export strategies and motivations.

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  • Ronald V. Kalafsky & Douglas R. Gress, 2014. "Go big or stay home? Korean machinery firms, trade fair dynamics and export performance," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(1), pages 136-152, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apbizr:v:20:y:2014:i:1:p:136-152
    DOI: 10.1080/13602381.2013.814227
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    Cited by:

    1. Harald Bathelt & Gang Zeng (ed.), 2015. "Temporary Knowledge Ecologies," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 15466.
    2. Minjae Kim & Myongsop Pak, 2022. "Analysis of Factors for Korea’s Export Companies to Respond to Trade Remedies: Mediation Effect of Fairness Perception," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(13), pages 1-25, June.

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