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

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