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Table 1

Impact of 4.0 on export strategies

4.0 technology	Impact on export strategies	Authors (year)
Additive manufacturing	Enabling response to technological and environmental changes in highly competitive global markets	Kafouros et al. (2008), Zahra and Covin (1995)
Advanced manufacturing	Enabling response to technological and environmental changes in highly competitive global markets	Kafouros et al. (2008), Zahra and Covin (1995)
Advanced manufacturing	Facilitating to enter export markets and improve export performance reducing variable production costs Facilitating to win export competition and increase market share Fiercer market competition when improving the productivity of firms	Zhang et al. (2023)
Big data	Change in export strategies through high-speed connectivity	Strange and Zucchella (2017)
	Monitoring emerging trends and opportunities in overseas markets Optimize supply, production and distribution activities around the world Facilitating business activities expansions to international, fast growing and distant ones markets
	Increasing export performance	Al-Khatib (2023)
Artificial intelligence	Improving export product quality by boosting resource allocation efficiency and information-processing abilities	Xu and Tian (2023)
Artificial intelligence	Facilitating exports allowing a substantial reduction in translation costs and helping to face language barriers	Brynjolfsson et al. (2019)
Blockchain	Increasing export performance and fostering international trade success	Purwaningsih et al. (2024)
Cloud computing	Increasing export performance indicators, such as export value, export intensity and export in most dynamics sectors	Boccia et al. (2022)

4.0 technology	Impact on export strategies	Authors (year)
Additive manufacturing	Enabling response to technological and environmental changes in highly competitive global markets	Kafouros et al. (2008), Zahra and Covin (1995)
Advanced manufacturing	Enabling response to technological and environmental changes in highly competitive global markets	Kafouros et al. (2008), Zahra and Covin (1995)
Advanced manufacturing	Facilitating to enter export markets and improve export performance reducing variable production costs Facilitating to win export competition and increase market share Fiercer market competition when improving the productivity of firms	Zhang et al. (2023)
Big data	Change in export strategies through high-speed connectivity	Strange and Zucchella (2017)
	Monitoring emerging trends and opportunities in overseas markets Optimize supply, production and distribution activities around the world Facilitating business activities expansions to international, fast growing and distant ones markets
	Increasing export performance	Al-Khatib (2023)
Artificial intelligence	Improving export product quality by boosting resource allocation efficiency and information-processing abilities	Xu and Tian (2023)
Artificial intelligence	Facilitating exports allowing a substantial reduction in translation costs and helping to face language barriers	Brynjolfsson et al. (2019)
Blockchain	Increasing export performance and fostering international trade success	Purwaningsih et al. (2024)
Cloud computing	Increasing export performance indicators, such as export value, export intensity and export in most dynamics sectors	Boccia et al. (2022)

Source(s): Own elaboration