Fig. 1. Summarized conceptual framework
Table 1. Number of employees
Table 2. Mode of Entry to Export Market
Table 3. Sources of foreign trade information
Table 4. Summary of Rankings
Table 5. Summarised Correlations
Table 6. Model Summaryb
Table 6 (a). ANOVAa
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