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



Ganotakis, Panagiotis ORCID: 0000-0001-7896-799X, Konara, Palitha, Kafouros, Mario and Love, James H
(2022) Taking a time-out from exporting: Implications for the likelihood of export re-entry and re-entry export performance. JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS, 57 (5). p. 101349.

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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.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Time-out period, Exporting, Export performance, Re-entry, Organizational learning theory, Foreign collaborations
Divisions: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Management
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 17 May 2022 07:39
Last Modified: 10 Mar 2023 05:55
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101349
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3154949