Gaining of competitive advantage of Malaysian telecommunication products: measure of competitiveness
This study tries to examine the export competitiveness of selected telecommunication products by using indicators like Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) and Constant Market Share (CMS) analysis and Shift-share method and these are used for identifying potential export markets. The selected fo...
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Language: | English |
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World Business Institute
2014
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Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/39926/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/39926/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/39926/1/Telecommunication_Australia.pdf |
Summary: | This study tries to examine the export competitiveness of selected
telecommunication products by using indicators like Revealed Comparative
Advantage (RCA) and Constant Market Share (CMS) analysis and Shift-share
method and these are used for identifying potential export markets. The
selected four categories of telecommunication products are taken into account
on the basis of three digit level Standard International Trade Classification
(SITC) for the period between 2000 and 2011.The RCA calculation clearly
indicates an increasing strength of comparative advantage of Malaysia, except
for the products (SITC- 763) and (SITC- 764). This is mainly due to the
negligible import for these products. The CMS results suggest that export gains
of Malaysia for telecommunication products are largely attributed to the size of
the market and also to its competitiveness effects. The CMS analysis also
depicts that the competitiveness effect of telecommunication products are
subsequently improved in general during the period III and I (2008-11and 2000-
03) as compared to those of the period I and II (2000-03 and 2004-07) and
period II and III (2004-07 and 2008-11). The shift- share indicates that the USA,
UK, Netherlands, Switzerlands, Japan and Germany are biggest importing
countries of Malaysian telecommunication products although major challenges
are the asian countries here.
Keyword: Export Competitiveness, RCA, CMS, Shift-Share and Market opportunity
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