Onkelinx, Jonas; Manolova, Tatiana S.; Edelman, Linda F. - In: Global entrepreneurship : past, present & future, (pp. 45-66). 2016
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....