The Strategy Tripod Perspective in Explaining Firms’ Export Performance

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Abstract. Current institution-based view studies in the literature have focused on macro-level data, therefore, they providelimited implication on export performance and institutional profile relationship. This is a crucial problem and it is required tolook at the relationship more closely by performing organization-level research. The article deals with the institution-based viewby introducing a novel methodological perspective. The institution-based view and strategy tripod perspective constitute themethodological basis of the study. The authors reframed conceptual model of Su, Peng and Xie [2016] and viewed the mediatingrole of institutional and industrial variables instead of the moderating role. In line with this purpose, the authors gathered surveydata consisting of a sample of 187 export firms operating in Turkey and used Baron and Kenny method to test the mediating roleof variables by applying structural equation modelling. The research findings indicate that institutional profile in which the firmsare embedded and the strategic position in the industry have a full mediation role in the relationship between the resources andcapabilities of firms and export performance. Also, resource and capabilities might affect the strategic positioning and institutionperception of managers. The theoretical and practical implication of the study revealed that institutions matter as emphasizedin literature. That is the reason why academician and managers have to consider the function of institutional profile for betterperformance, as well as the function of resource acquisition and strategic positioning.Keywords: strategy tripod perspective; resources; export performance; institution-based view; industry-based view; resourcebased view; Turkey