An Assessment of SME's Export Competitiveness: A Case Of Kazakhstan

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10.2991/ictim-17.2017.3How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Small and medium enterprises, export competitiveness, government support, innovative capacity

Abstract

The main aim of this study is to analyze factors, which affect SME's export competitiveness in Kazakhstan. In order to achieve the aim, the survey was conducted. The numbers of respondents were 40 SMEs, which is located particularly in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Moreover, in order to testify the relationship between factors, such as firm age, firm size, innovative capacity, government support, access to finance and SME's export competitiveness, there were employed regression analyses, through using SPSS. According to above analyze, the paper put forward that government should improve taxation system for entrepreneurs, improve financial and credit regulation. Moreover, from the government side there should be assistance to the development of innovative capacity and development of infrastructure for supporting small and medium enterprises.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Aidana Zhaishylyk
AU  - Lifan Xu
PY  - 2017/09
DA  - 2017/09
TI  - An Assessment of SME's Export Competitiveness: A Case Of Kazakhstan
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Transformations and Innovations in Management (ICTIM 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 39
EP  - 50
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ictim-17.2017.3
DO  - 10.2991/ictim-17.2017.3
ID  - Zhaishylyk2017/09
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