In this chapter, we explore the effect of export exit on subsequent firm performance in a sample of 13,629 Belgian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We find that firms that stop exporting have lower profitability and profitability declines even further after they exit foreign markets....

This review evaluates different methods of measuring firm performance and highlights the cost, time and accuracy of various data collection methods. Data were gathered from 66 manufacturing firms in Massachusetts that had formed within the 4-6 years prior to the research and were listed in the...