Exporter-importer business relationships: Past empirical research and future directions
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW, cilt.27, sa.5, ss.1007-1021, 2018 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 27 Sayı: 5
- Basım Tarihi: 2018
- Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2018.03.001
- Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1007-1021
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Exporter-importer relationships, Literature review, Exporting, Importing
- Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
We present a systematic and comprehensive review of the extant empirical literature on exporter-importer business relationships during the period 1975-2017. The review covers 196 articles published in academic journals, which were content-analyzed with their theoretical background, research design, scope of research, sampling/data collection methods, data analysis, and thematic areas covered. Our findings reveal that this line of research is characterized by: (a) a sound theoretical foundation, the most frequent theories being the behavioral paradigm, transaction cost economics, and relational exchange theory; (b) heavy emphasis on formalized, statistical, cross-sectional, and causal research designs; (c) focus on single-country studies, conducted mainly in Europe, Asia, and North America; (d) a tendency to employ probabilistic samples, of a relatively large size; (e) an adoption of relatively sophisticated methods to purify and analyze data collected; and (f) an emphasis on topics relating to behavioral and structural relational dimensions, followed by external and internal influences. Guidelines for researchers focusing on exporter-importer relationships are provided, as well as suggestions for potential new research topics.