Examining the Effects of Organizational, Strategic, and Environmental Factors on Export Performance with the Mediating Role of Export Innovation in Kalleh Company

: The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of organizational, strategic, and environmental factors on export performance as mediating role of export innovation in Kalleh Company. This research is an applied one in terms of the target-ba.sed classification and a descriptive survey one in terms of the method-based classification. The studied sample of managers and experts in Kalleh Company consists of 160 people. The sampling method is available and the sample size was calculated 114 using the Cochran’s formula. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS and Smart-PLS software and reviewed with the help of structural equation modeling of research hypotheses. The results showed considering the mediating role of innovation, that organizational, strategic and environmental factors, formalization, decentralization, orientation and dynamics of export market have a significant impact on export performance, but the factors of commitment to the export market, information exchange and market competitiveness have no significant impact on innovation and export performance. strategic, and organizational stimuli (drivers). The results showed that the lack of concentration in decision making, exports quality, information exchange and export market dynamics have a significant impact on the rate of export innovation. Moreover, exports have a positive impact on export performance. Azara and Ciabuschi (2016) have carried out a research entitled "Organizational Innovation, technological innovations, and export performance: The effects of radical and extreme innovations". The results show that organizational innovation increases export performance directly and indirectly by supporting technological innovations. Moreover, by a good analysis of the role of mediation in technological innovations, given its radicalness and its prevalence, for organizational innovation, it shows how the radicalism approach increases technological innovations, although, in particular, the only extent is beneficial for export performance. This study helps explore the lack of research in relation to different types of innovation related to export performance and contribute to international business literature and marketing by producing new evidence about the mechanism through which organizational and technological innovations may improve export performance. In a study entitled “the impact of the internal and external environment on the firm innovation, a moderating test”, Dibrell et al. (2015) investigated the impact of internal and external factors on organizational innovation and assumed that the interaction between internal and external motivations is in order to increase external acceptance on organizational innovation. The results showed that there is evidence of a positive relationship between foreign absorption and organizational innovation, and the moderating effect of the internal orientation on firm-firm foreign relations is well observed. In a research entitled “Market orientation, Knowledge competence, and Innovation”, Ozkaya et al. (2015) explore whether the orientation of the client and competition to market-based innovation becomes directly converted into a competitor or client’s knowledge competence. The findings indicated that knowledge competence serves as a