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Table 2

Literature streams, dominant explanatory focus, and the article's positioning

Stream	Dominant explanatory focus	Main blind spot	How this study responds
Export performance and export marketing capability	Drivers of export intensity/performance and routines such as sensing, segmentation, adaptation, and control	Exporters are usually treated as comparable firms that differ mainly by strength or outcomes	Shifts analysis from degree to form by asking how market-facing routines are organized inside different exporters
Exporter heterogeneity and configurational reasoning	Combinations, equifinality, and firm-level causal complexity	Few transparent and auditable exporter typologies	Uses a rule-based classifier to make physiology-based exporter forms inspectable case by case
SME internationalization and networked expansion	Gradual learning, post-entry growth, niche scaling, and network leverage	Trajectories are explained more often than the coexistence of different exporter logics	Identifies species-specific routes to foreign-market action within one regional ecology
Peripheral and regional export ecosystems	Place effects, regional constraints, trade structure, and support conditions	The firm-level organizational black box remains largely closed	Connects peripheral constraint to internal physiology and outward marketing capability

Stream	Dominant explanatory focus	Main blind spot	How this study responds
Export performance and export marketing capability	Drivers of export intensity/performance and routines such as sensing, segmentation, adaptation, and control	Exporters are usually treated as comparable firms that differ mainly by strength or outcomes	Shifts analysis from degree to form by asking how market-facing routines are organized inside different exporters
Exporter heterogeneity and configurational reasoning	Combinations, equifinality, and firm-level causal complexity	Few transparent and auditable exporter typologies	Uses a rule-based classifier to make physiology-based exporter forms inspectable case by case
SME internationalization and networked expansion	Gradual learning, post-entry growth, niche scaling, and network leverage	Trajectories are explained more often than the coexistence of different exporter logics	Identifies species-specific routes to foreign-market action within one regional ecology
Peripheral and regional export ecosystems	Place effects, regional constraints, trade structure, and support conditions	The firm-level organizational black box remains largely closed	Connects peripheral constraint to internal physiology and outward marketing capability