Empirical Research on Export Barriers: Review, Assessment, and Synthesis

Abstract

The article attempts to review, assess, and synthesize existing empirical research on factors impeding the initiation, development, or sustainment of export activities. The investigation covered 35 studies and revealed that from the conceptual aspect, research on the subject is still at the identification and conceptualization stage. It was also demonstrated that the methodologies adopted were unsophisticated and flawed in some respects. On the empirical side, no uniform pattern was observed in the findings of the studies investigated. An aggregation of the empirical data, however, revealed that the existence of limited information to locate and analyze foreign markets had the greatest inhibiting effect on export behavior. The influence of some export barriers was also found to vary according to certain methodological parameters. Finally, an attempted classification of export barriers revealed no significant differences among the resulting categories as to their inhibiting impact on exporting.

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