The role of government on export performance (an empirical model, case study: carpet industry)

Abstract

This study empirically investigates the direct and indirect effects of government planning on firm export performance. Government export programs normally define the premise for successful or failure exporting activities of the corporate sector and play a key role in stimulating international business activities of firms (Abay, stanl, slater, 1989) In this article, we explain the government activities for export development and the activities that make barriers for exporting that the promoting factors include: Tax incentive, Covering insurance, Export guarantee fund, Create exhibition, Give information about appropriate market, Export developing program, Training classes about the rules of import& export, and the barrier program include: Exchange rate fluctuations, Tariff barrier, Boycott(sanction), Political obstacle, Export license. so, the motto of this study is to find out the affecting role of government on export performance of company to ensure profitable export performance in the case of carpet company in Iran. Developing of non-oil exports are important because of revenues oil declining and oil resources renewable, on the hand, and increasing of population, on the other hand. Behavior and performance of the company in the exporting markets, also, investigating of the key success factors are one of the important factors in this scope and because of the importance of carpet industry in non-oil export, in this essay, we investigating the  effective factors on export performance in carpet companies. This study in term of purpose is applied research methods and in term of doing research is descriptive – analytical. And we use of questionnaire among 342 people that work in carpet company. And between 13 Hypothesis all of them accepted in this study according to SPSS software and regression, it means that all factors have positive and meaningful relationship with export performance.

Keywords: government role, export performance, promotion program, barrier program