TY - JOUR
T1 - The Effect of Government Support on Bureaucracy, COVID-19 Resilience and Export Intensity
T2 - Evidence from North Africa
AU - Onjewu, Adah-Kole Emmanuel
AU - Olan, Femi
AU - Nyuur, Richard Benon-be-isan
AU - Paul, Salima
AU - Nguyen, Ha Thanh Truc
PY - 2023/2/1
Y1 - 2023/2/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Government Support
KW - Bureaucracy
KW - Resilience
KW - Direct Exports
KW - Indirect Exports
KW - Morocco
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85142754947
U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113468
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113468
M3 - Article
SN - 0148-2963
VL - 156
SP - 1
EP - 13
JO - Journal of Business Research
JF - Journal of Business Research
M1 - 113468
ER -
