Investigating Factors Influencing on Export Relationship Continuity of Iranian Companies of Medicine Exporter
Subject Areas : medical documents
sepideh Ataei
1
(M.Sc in Business Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Mohammad Javad Taghipourian
2
(Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Chalus Branch, Islamic Azad University, Chalus, Iran)
Keywords: Satisfaction from Export, Strategic Orientation, Strategic Performance, Financial Performance, Export Relationship quality,
Abstract :
Introduction: Despite Iran's capability in the field of medicine, a small share of the international market holds and given the importance of exports in a country's economy, the purpose of this study was to investigate affect Factors on Export Relationship Continuity of Iranian companies of medicine exporter Such as strategic orientation, export performance, satisfaction of exports and export quality relationship Methods: Based on the three models of Scalorad, 2015, Liu and Fu, 2011 and Theodeso et al., 2012, gathered the views of managers and experts in the business of pharmaceutical companies. A total of 202 questionnaires were collected for analysis. Validity test was used for confirmatory factor analysis and AVE, and for reliability of Cronbach's alpha and combined reliability, the results confirm confirmation. Results: The study by using SEM via Smart PLS software showed that the effect of relationship quality on export financial (0/166). Among the highest impacts, exporters' satisfaction on the expectation of continuity of import-export relationship was 0.174, while the lowest impact had a strategic orientation on export financial performance with 0.085. Conclusion: the study shown strategic orientation through export performance (financial-strategic) and export satisfaction affect the expectation of continuity of relationship in Iranian companies of medicine exporter. These results can be of great help to industry executives in the development of exports.
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