Onjewu, Adah-Kole Emmanuel and Olan, Femi and Nyuur, Richard Benon-Be-Isan and Paul, Salima and Nguyen, Ha Thanh Truc (2023) The effect of government support on Bureaucracy, COVID-19 resilience and export intensity: Evidence from North Africa. Journal of Business Research, 156. p. 113468. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113468
Onjewu, Adah-Kole Emmanuel and Olan, Femi and Nyuur, Richard Benon-Be-Isan and Paul, Salima and Nguyen, Ha Thanh Truc (2023) The effect of government support on Bureaucracy, COVID-19 resilience and export intensity: Evidence from North Africa. Journal of Business Research, 156. p. 113468. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113468
Onjewu, Adah-Kole Emmanuel and Olan, Femi and Nyuur, Richard Benon-Be-Isan and Paul, Salima and Nguyen, Ha Thanh Truc (2023) The effect of government support on Bureaucracy, COVID-19 resilience and export intensity: Evidence from North Africa. Journal of Business Research, 156. p. 113468. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113468
Abstract
The literature on the imperativeness of government support for firm survival since the onset of COVID-19 is vast, but scholars have scarcely considered the impact of such assistance on managers' time, nor the extent to which support measures induce resilience and export activity. Accordingly, this study assesses the impact of government support on (1) bureaucracy and (2) resilience using data from 535 Moroccan SMEs. It further evaluates the influence of resilience on direct versus indirect exports, and espouses the institutional voids, resource-based and strategy-creation view to explain the associations through a contingency lens. The results demonstrate that (1) government support increases bureaucracy which, (2) surprisingly triggers and enhances resilience. Furthermore, (3) resilience has a positive impact on direct exports but (4) adversely affects indirect exports. Theoretically, the findings acquiesce extant calls for measurement specificity in export performance. Practically, stakeholders' attention is drawn to the value of managers' time well spent.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Government Support; Bureaucracy; Resilience; Direct Exports; Indirect Exports; Morocco |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2022 12:15 |
Last Modified: | 07 Aug 2024 20:21 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/34368 |
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