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: The purpose of this paper is to explore the linkages between the appointment of a new management board member and the following strategic change (SC) in the product-market scope of the firm. Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on the whole population of Estonian firms, in...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to find out whether the financial predictors of failure differ for exporting and non-exporting firms. Design: The study is based on two samples of French manufacturing micro firms from Amadeus database. Samples of 468 exporting and 1,148 non-exporting firms...

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...