firm, industry and host-regions matter in explaining heterogeneity in export behaviors. The international entrepreneurship … literature has highlighted that firm-, industry- and hostregion- level factors shape export behaviors, yet more research is … needed about their relative contribution. We decompose the variance of export behaviors of 4,982 Belgian SMEs during 2006 …

Low export participation of firms across countries is typically related to high entry costs allowing only the most … productive firms to serve foreign markets. In this paper, we move beyond individual firm characteristics to explain export … participation and investigate whether firms' domestic network linkages can facilitate export entry. Firms receive information from …

We study the relationship between ICT, total factor productivity and export at the firm level in Belgium, France and … the Netherlands. In particular, we look at whether ICT has both a direct effect on export and an indirect effect via … differences in the effects of ICT on export between the three countries. …

details in particular information about firms' productivity and export performance. Our results show that while the average …

characteristic are shown to affect the export versus FDI decision: intangibility, the searchexperience-credence framework and the …

For small open economies, it is essential that many firms find their way to the export market and most governments … provide some form of export promotion assistance. We use detailed firm-level data for Flanders, the largest region in Belgium …

key firm-level outcomes: export status and size. …

and export performance among European economies. We use the information compiled in the Trade module of CompNet to … nonexporters. However, this productivity premium is rising with the export experience of firms, with permanent exporters being much …

findings suggest that both types of slack resources have an inverted U-shaped relationship with the decision to export. This … negatively influences this likelihood. After controlling for the decision to export, we find no significant relationship between … slack resources and export intensity. Nevertheless, we do find an inverted U-shaped relationship between slack resources and …