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 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....

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...

The aim of this study was to investigate whether firms' reporting delays are interconnected with bankruptcy risk and its financial determinants. This study was based on 698,189 firm-year observations from Estonia. Annual report submission delay, either in a binary or ordinal form, was used as...