{"id":57662,"date":"2026-04-20T15:45:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/glossary\/exit-barrier\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:36:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:36:52","slug":"exit-barrier","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/glossary\/exit-barrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Exit Barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An exit barrier refers to any limitation or constraint that complicates or makes it costly for a company or investor to withdraw from a market or industry. These barriers can take the form of closing costs, long-term contractual commitments, or sunk investments. The presence of these obstacles can discourage economic actors from withdrawing from a market, even if it is more advantageous to do so, which can impact market competitiveness and dynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exit barrier refers to any limitation or constraint that complicates or makes it costly for a company or investor to withdraw from a market or industry. These barriers can take the form of closing costs, long-term contractual commitments, or sunk investments. The presence of these obstacles can discourage economic actors from withdrawing from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"wds_primary_glossary-categories":0,"footnotes":""},"glossary-categories":[94],"glossary-tags":[],"class_list":["post-57662","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry","glossary-categories-direct-marketing-databases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/57662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/57662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-categories?post=57662"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-tags?post=57662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}