Çalışanların Girişimci ve Yenilikçi Davranışlarının İşletmelerin Sürdürülebilir İhracat Performansına Etkiso
The Effect of Employees' Entrepreneurial and Innovative Behaviors on Sustainable Export Performance of Businesses

Summary/Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of employees' entrepreneurial and innovative behaviors on the sustainable export performance of enterprises. Design/methodology/approach – The study was conducted with the employees of the exporting enterprises in Avcılar district of Istanbul province by using convenience sampling on a voluntary basis and 401 employees were reached with a questionnaire. Normal distribution test, sampling adequacy test, difference test, correlation and regression analyses were performed to analyze the data set. Results – As a result of the regression analysis, it was determined that the entrepreneurial behaviors of the employees have an effect on the export performance of the enterprises (F=7,790; p 0,05; β=0,110) and the innovative behaviors have an effect on the export performance of the enterprises (F=22,483; p 0,05; β=0,188). It can be evaluated that revealing the entrepreneurial and innovative behaviors of exporting business employees is one of the important factors in export performance. Discussion – The fact that it is one of the first studies to investigate the effect of entrepreneurial and innovative behaviors on the export performance of enterprises shows the originality of the research. In addition to contributing to the literature on the effect of employees' entrepreneurial and innovative behaviors on export performance, it is also possible to conduct studies on other organizational behavior issues in the future.

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