RT Journal Article
T1 International sourcing and the productivity of SMEs in transition countries: Formal and informal "region effects" and the communist footprint
A1 Nieto Sánchez, María Jesús
A1 Rodríguez Márquez, Alicia
A1 Hernández Paz, Virginia
AB We study how SMEs in transition countries can boost productivity by sourcing inputs from regions with which they share formal institutional links (the European Union) or informal links (the former communist bloc). Additionally, we discuss how the length of the communist footprint may modify these productivity gains. Using a sample of SMEs located in Eastern Europe, we find a positive relation between firm productivity and inputs from regions with formal and informal institutional links. We also find that this positive relation is weaker for firms with longer communist footprints that source inputs from EU countries.
SN 0148-2963
YR 2022
FD 2022-06-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/38490
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/38490
LA eng
NO We thank the Associate Editor, Professor Debmalya Mukherjee, and the two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. The manuscript has also benefited from the comments by participants and reviewers of the 46th EIBA Annual Conference on an earlier version of this paper. This project was funded by the Government Research Agency of Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2019-106874GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033). This work is developed with the support of Madrid Government (Comunidad de Madrid-Spain) with the project Excellence of University Professors (EPUC3M20) in the context of the V PRICIT (Regional Programme of Research and Technological Innovation). All authors have contributed equally to this paper.
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