Taking a time-out from exporting: Implications for the likelihood of export re-entry and re-entry export performance

Panagiotis Ganotakis, Palitha Konara, Mario Kafouros and James H. Love

Journal of World Business, 2022, vol. 57, issue 5

Abstract: Drawing from Organizational Learning Theory, we explain how the “time-out period” from exporting affects a) the likelihood of re-starting exporting and b) re-entry export performance. We also explain how foreign collaboration influences these two relationships. We show that the time-out period has an inverted U-shaped relationship with the likelihood of re-starting exporting, and a U-shaped relationship with re-entry export performance. Foreign collaboration enhances managerial confidence and thereby increases the likelihood of re-starting exporting during the earlier phases of the time-out period. It also enhances re-entry export performance by accelerating new knowledge accumulation in the later phases of the time-out period.

Keywords: Time-out period; Exporting; Export performance; Re-entry; Organizational learning theory; Foreign collaborations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101349

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