Research Article

The Impact Of Export Behavior And Cost Leadership Strategy On Business Competitive Capacity: An Application

Volume: 11 Number: 1 March 31, 2022
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The Impact Of Export Behavior And Cost Leadership Strategy On Business Competitive Capacity: An Application

Abstract

As a result of "production", which can be defined as the activity of creating a good or service, the relevant goods or services are offered to the market through sales. These sales take place in the form of domestic sales as well as sales abroad. Foreign sales are called "export" for short. Sales abroad will increase the business scales and therefore their total profits by increasing the market shares of micro-level exporter enterprises, as well as ensuring that the countries where these companies take a greater share from the world trade volume and increase their GDP at the macro-level As a result of these, today, overseas sales rates and levels within total sales have become more and more important in terms of enterprises' maintaining their operations. For, in terms of both countries and enterprises, carrying out overseas economic activities has become inevitable. In this respect, the present study aims to determine in what way(s) business managers' competitive powers depending on exportation will change in case of overseas sales. In the study, two basic models were formed. Firstly, cost leadership strategy was determined as the dependent and the product development capacity of enterprises, knowledge of exportation and logistic service efficiency were determined as the independent variables. Secondly, the cost leadership strategy, which is the intermediate varible for the mentioned three independent variables, was added and the competition strategy was chosen as the dependent variable. The data was obtained via administration of a questionnaire. The study was carried out with the senior managers of the exporting firms in Turkey. In the study, 5-point Likert type scale was used, the analyses were made via the SPSS for Windows 23.0 statistical package program and the hypotheses were supported. As a result of the study, it was concluded that the enterprises following a business cost leadership strategy increased their competitive capacities and the enterprises having the knowledge of exportation and the ones with the logistic service activity increaed their competitive capacities to the extent that they maintained these behaviors of theirs. Moreover, in the study, the other obtained results and discussions were included.

Keywords

Product Development Capacity, , Export Information , Logistics Service Effectiveness , Cost Leadership Strategy , Competitive Strategy

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APA
Kemer, O. B. (2022). İhracat Davranışları ve Maliyet Liderliği Stratejisinin İşletmenin Rekabet Kapasitesine Etkisi: Bir Uygulama. İnsan Ve Toplum Bilimleri Araştırmaları Dergisi, 11(1), 108-132. https://doi.org/10.15869/itobiad.936919