TY - JOUR
T1 - “The Determinants of Nicaraguan Non-Agricultural Exporters: A Firm Level Perspective”
AU - Pisani, Michael J
N1 - Funding Information:
After 17 years of conservative government, in 2007 Nicaragua returned to the presidency Sandinista Daniel Ortega. Daniel Ortega led the radical Nicaraguan Revolution in the 1970s and the country during the tumultuous 1980s with the active support of the Eastern Bloc and social democrats against local despots and US policy in Central America. Since returning to office in 2007, Ortega’s Nicaragua has been supported with extensive financial assistance, primarily for the poor, by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas under the aegis of Venezuelan Presidents Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro. This Bolivarian support has taken place in the absence of US foreign policy interest in the region, where the political economy is an active variant in the Nicaraguan context.
Funding Information:
This research was, in part, supported by a College of Business Administration summer research grant awarded by Central Michigan University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Nicaragua, as a small emerging market with a challenging history of economic and political turmoil, is under studied within the international business context. Utilizing the World Bank’s 2010 Nicaragua Enterprise Survey, this paper explores which non-agricultural Nicaraguan firms are best suited to export. Important findings include firm location, firm size, ownership composition, performance, firm industry, firm quality programs, and firm origin in the informal sector. These findings are discussed within the Nicaraguan context.
AB - Nicaragua, as a small emerging market with a challenging history of economic and political turmoil, is under studied within the international business context. Utilizing the World Bank’s 2010 Nicaragua Enterprise Survey, this paper explores which non-agricultural Nicaraguan firms are best suited to export. Important findings include firm location, firm size, ownership composition, performance, firm industry, firm quality programs, and firm origin in the informal sector. These findings are discussed within the Nicaraguan context.
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84924867400
SN - 1097-8526
VL - 16
SP - 63
EP - 85
JO - Latin American Business Review
JF - Latin American Business Review
IS - 1
ER -