The Impact of Basic Requirement of National Competitiveness on International Marketing Performance in Selected Countries

Globalization of the economy has made it impossible for countries to achieve continuous and stable economic growth and development by relying on economic, commercial, and marketing policies based on the domestic market and has made it a necessity to focus on international marketing activities. In this regard, the current research examines the impact of the basic requirements of national competitiveness on international marketing performance in 40 selected countries of the world during the period of 2011-2018. For this purpose, the research model has been estimated by the panel data approach and by the method of generalized moments. The results showed that institutions, infrastructure, macroeconomic environment, and health and primary education have a positive and significant effect on international marketing performance as the basic requirements of competitiveness. Meanwhile, the estimated coefficient of the macroeconomic environment is larger than the estimated coefficient of other competitiveness requirements. The estimated coefficient for health and primary education was smaller than the estimated coefficient of other competitiveness requirements. Also, the effect of control variables of commodity market customer orientation, business environment dynamics, and innovation on international marketing performance in selected countries has been positive and significant.