Australia's Export Promotion Program: Is It Effective?

Australian Journal of Management

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 125-142

  Brewer, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349301791     PISSN: 03128962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/031289620903400107     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. ABS 2000, Business Longitudinal Survey, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra.
2. ABS 2006, New Methodology for Deriving Counts of Australian Exporters, catalogue 5368.0, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra.
3. ABS 2006, Number and Characteristics of Australian Exporters 2005-06, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra.
4. ABS 2007, Counts of Australian Businesses, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra.
5. Ahmed, Z. U., Mohamed, O., Johnson, J. P., & Meng, L. Y. 2002, ‘Export promotion programs of Malaysian firms: An international marketing perspective’, Journal of Business Research, vol. 55, no. 10, 831-43.
6. AIG 2006, Australian Manufacturing and China: Deepening Engagement, Australian Industry Group, Sydney.
7. Albaum, G. 1983, ‘Effectiveness of government export assistance for US smaller sized manufacturers: Some further evidence’, International Marketing Review, vol. 1, no. 1, 68-73.
8. Austrade 2002, Knowing and Growing the Exporter Community, Australian Trade Commission, Sydney.
9. 2003, Annual Report 2002-2003, Australian Trade Commission, Sydney.
10. Austrade 2005, Review of the Export Market Development Grants Scheme, Australian Trade Commission, Sydney.
11. Austrade 2006, Annual Report 2005-2006, Australian Trade Commission, Sydney.
12. Austrade 2007, Annual Report 2006-2007, Australian Trade Commission, Sydney.
13. Austrade 2008, Review of Export Policies and Programs - Austrade Submission, Australian Government.
14. Austrade 2007, What is Austrade?, 2007, accessed 7 March 2007, http://www.austrade.gov.au/About-Austrade1351/default.aspx.
15. Becker, C., & Davies, M. 2002, Developments in the Trade-Weighted Index, Australian Reserve Bank, Canberra.
16. Cadwell, C. 1992, State Export Promotion and Small Business, Research Summary Number 125, Small Business Administration, Washington, D.C.: United States.
17. Cavusgil, S. T., & Naor, J. 1987, ‘Firm and management characteristics as discriminators of export marketing activity’, Journal of Business Research, vol. 15, no. 3, 221-35.
18. Coughlin, C. C., & Cartwright, P. A. 1987, ‘An examination of state foreign export promotion and manufacturing exports’, Journal of Regional Science, vol. 27, no. 3, 439-49.
19. DFAT 2002, Trade Outcomes and Objectives Statement, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra.
20. Edey, M. 2007, Address to the Australian Industry Group by the Reserve Bank, Sydney.
21. Francis, J., & Collins-Dodd, C. 2004, ‘Impact of export promotion programs on firm competencies, strategies and performance’ International Marketing Review, vol. 21, no. 4/5, pp. 474–94.
22. Gençtürk, E. F. & Kotabe, M. 2001, ‘The effect of export assistance program usage on export performance: a contingency explanation’, Journal of International Marketing, vol. 9, no. 2, 51-72.
23. Gillespie, K., & Riddle, L. 2004, ‘Export promotion organization emergence and development: A call to research’ International Marketing Review, vol. 21, no. 4/5, pp. 462–73.
24. Johanson, J., & Wiedersheim-Paul, F. 1975, ‘The internationalisation of the firm: Four Swedish case studies’, The Journal of Management Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, 305-22.
25. Keesing, D. B., & Singer, A. 1992, ‘Why official export promotion fails’, Finance and Development, vol. 29, no. 1, 52-3.
26. Kotabe, M., & Czinkota, M. R. 1992, ‘State government promotion of manufacturing exports: A gap analysis, Journal of International Business Studies, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 637–58.
27. Liesch, P., & Knight, G. 1999, ‘Information internalization and hurdle rates in small and medium enterprise internationalization’, Journal of International Business Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 383-94.
28. Marris, S. 2001, ‘Shake up may cut Austrade role’, The Australian, 21 November, p. 4.
29. Maslen, G. 2006, ‘In the wake of the boom’, About the House, September, pp. 24–7.
30. Nothdurft, W. E. 1992, ‘The export game’, Governing Magazine, 22 May 2007, http://www.governing.com/archive/1992/aug/export.txt.
31. O'Byrne, P. 2002, ‘Australia: Doubling SME exporters’, International Trade Forum.
32. Pointon, T. 1978, ‘Measuring the gains from government export promotion’, Journal of European Marketing, vol. 12, no. 6, 451-62.
33. Productivity Commission 2001, Statistical Analysis of the Use and Impact of Government Business Programs, Australian Productivity Commission Staff Research Paper, Canberra.
34. Queensland Government 2008, Business Development, http://www.business.qld.gov.au/dsdweb/v4/apps/web/content.cfm?id=3181.
35. Seringhaus, F. H. R. 1986, ‘The impact of government export marketing assistance’, International Marketing Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Summer, pp. 55–60.
36. Seringhaus, F. H. R. 1987, ‘Promoting exports: what role do government programs play?’ Business Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 57–61.
37. Seringhaus, F. H. R. & Botschen, G. 1991, ‘Cross-national comparison of export promotion services: The views of Canadian and Australian firms’, Journal of International Business Studies, vol. 22, no. 1, 115-33.
38. Seringhaus, F. H. R. & Rosson, P. J. 1989, Government Export Promotion: A Global Perspective. Routledge, London.
39. Shamsuddoha, A. K., & Ali, M. Y. 2006, ‘Mediated effects of export promotion programs on firm export performance’, Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, vol. 18, no. 2, 93-110.
40. Singer, T. O., & Czinkota, M. R. 1994, ‘Factors associated with effective use of export assistance’, Journal of International Marketing, vol. 2, no. 1, 53-71.
41. Swift, R. 2006, ‘Measuring the effects of exchange rate movements on investment in Australian manufacturing industry’, The Economic Record, vol. 82, Special, pp. 19–25.
42. Vaile, M. 2003, ‘Australian export awards’, Speech given in Brisbane on 7 May 2003.
43. Vaile, M. 2002, ‘Historic agreement to boost exports’, Minister for Trade Media Release A009, 4 April 2002.
44. Vanderleest, H. W. 1996, ‘What new exporters think about US Government sponsored export promotion services and publications’, Multinational Business Review, vol. 4, no. 2, 21-30.
45. Wilkinson, T., & Brouthers, L. E. 2000 ‘An evaluation of state sponsored promotion programs’, Journal of Business Research, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 229–36.