Summary: | The current study considers the difficulties of feed industry SMEs regarding export and testssome hypotheses to clarify the relevant barriers. The applied research method is descriptive.340 Questionnaires were distributed and 142 questionnaires were correctly answered. Thefindings show that regulations, bank and finance systems, and health permits, between the sixidentified factors, are the most important ones and have the highest regression coefficients onthe export development barriers construction. The next factors are the lack of marketing plan,specialized educations, and cultural level of society. While previous studies have focused onexport barriers, there are rare studies to investigate them in developing countries. So, thecurrent paper aims to help policy makers and managers to improve the performance of firmsand following the Iranian industry.
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