Purpose

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the gender of the firm owner on the export behaviour of firms in the Indian context.

Design/methodology/approach

The present study utilizes the data from World Bank’s Enterprise Survey. The survey provides information on 9,281 firms located in different regions in India. Binomial logistic regression is employed to examine if the owner’s gender matters for the firm’s export-related decisions (export propensity, export mode, export intensity and export market diversification) as a direct or moderating factor controlling for other possible determinants of export activity.

Findings

The findings of the study reveal that firms with a majority of female ownership are less likely to export. However, once the firms indulge in exports, their choice of export mode and export intensity is not affected by the owner’s gender. The gender of the firm owner plays an important role in export market diversification as it is observed that the firms owned by the majority of women have concentrated export markets.

Practical implications

The findings advocate the integration of gender perspective into export promotion policies in India. In light of the findings that the gender of the firm owner entails a heterogeneous impact on different dimensions of export, the key areas requiring policy interventions are female entrepreneur’s export participation and export market diversification.

Originality/value

This study augments the previous scholarship by focusing on the intersection of the gender of firm owner and export propensity along with other unexplored dimensions of export behaviour in female entrepreneurship literature viz. mode of export, export intensity and export market diversification.

中文翻译：

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印度公司的出口行为：公司所有者的性别是否重要？

目的

本研究的目的是调查公司所有者的性别对印度背景下公司出口行为的影响。

设计/方法/方法

本研究利用世界银行企业调查的数据。该调查提供了位于印度不同地区的 9,281 家公司的信息。二项式逻辑回归用于检查所有者的性别是否对公司的出口相关决策（出口倾向、出口模式、出口强度和出口市场多元化）作为控制出口活动的其他可能决定因素的直接或调节因素。

发现

研究结果表明，拥有大多数女性所有权的公司不太可能出口。然而，一旦企业沉迷于出口，其出口方式和出口强度的选择不受所有者性别的影响。公司所有者的性别在出口市场多样化中起着重要作用，因为据观察，大多数女性拥有的公司都集中了出口市场。

实际影响

调查结果提倡将性别观点纳入印度的出口促进政策。鉴于企业所有者的性别对出口的不同维度产生异质影响的研究结果，需要政策干预的关键领域是女性企业家的出口参与和出口市场多元化。

原创性/价值

本研究通过关注企业所有者的性别和出口倾向的交叉点以及女性创业文献中出口行为的其他未探索维度来扩充先前的学术研究，即。出口方式、出口强度和出口市场多元化。