Purpose: This paper aims to study how firms’ export behavior is associated with their corporate governance. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses whole population data of Estonian small and medium-sized enterprises: 9,530 exporters and 73,619 non-exporters. Several theory-driven...

Purpose: This paper aims to find out what kind of export and failure risk patterns exist among young Estonian manufacturing exporters and explore their interlinkages. Design/methodology/approach: The sample consisted of 208 young Estonian manufacturing exporters. Based on internationalization...

Purpose: This paper aims to find out if different exporter types dominate among matched mature Spanish and Estonian firms and whether these types are associated with specific export growth/decline patterns. Design/methodology/approach: This study is based on firm-level data from the Estonian...

Purpose This paper aims to detect failure processes of French exporting firms and study their contingency with export processes. Design/methodology/approach The sample consisted of 131 bankrupted exporting firms from Bureau van Dijk’s Amadeus database. Factor and cluster analyses of six...

Purpose This paper aims to summarize the literature (journal articles and book chapters) on Central and Eastern European (CEE) firms’ outward internationalization failures: definitions and understandings of “failure”, “failed” firms’ internationalization processes, causes of...