What is it about?

This research aims at identifying the main factors affecting export competitiveness and its barriers, focusing on the minerals industry so that a scale is achieved for measuring export competitiveness in this industry. The main question of the present research is that why some countries lack special competitive advantage in export markets despite having rich sources of minerals. What factors yield competitiveness of the minerals industry in developing their product? In response to this question, the main objective of this study is to identify the main factors affecting export competitiveness of companies involved in the minerals industry and to explain the relationship between them.

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Why is it important?

Although some studies have been conducted to examine the competitiveness in different industries, no research has been found that has examined and identified the main factors affecting export competitiveness and their impacts in the minerals industry with a mixed quantitative and qualitative approach.

Perspectives

The findings of this research may help managers and policymakers, at the industrial and national levels, to reach a scale for assessing the export companies involved in this industry by identifying the most essential factors of export competitiveness of minerals. Furthermore, the findings of this research can act as a model for future researchers to develop a scale for export competitiveness in other industries.

Dr Majid Mohammad shafiee
Department of Management, Faculty of Administrative Sciences & Economics, University of Isfahan

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This page is a summary of: Developing a scale for export competitiveness: a mixed method approach in the minerals industry in Iran, Competitiveness Review An International Business Journal incorporating Journal of Global Competitiveness, January 2023, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/cr-08-2022-0111.
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