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 study aims to find out whether firm failure processes are age- and size-dependent. Design/methodology/approach The sample consists of 333 bankrupted Estonian firms. Failure processes are detected with consecutive factor and cluster analyses of six financial variables calculated for...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find out which different failure processes exist among the young manufacturing micro firms, and whether the representation of those processes differs first, in European countries, and second, among exporting and non-exporting firms....