Control Aversion and the Search for External Financing in Swedish SMEs.
The discussion on growth (Storey, 1997) and control aversion (Cressy, 1995; Chittenden et al., 1996; Cressy and Olofsson, 1996) in small and medium sized firms has been attracting an increasing amount of attention. Our purpose in this article is to identify under what circumstances small and medium sized firms are prepared to accept outside control in the business firm in order to grow. In the article it is argued that technology development, financial strength, size and perceived need to grow, change firms attitudes towards external financiers. The change in attitude towards more openness eventually leads to an actual behaviour where the principals choose to apply for external finance in the form of bank loans. A linear structural equation modelling program, LISREL, is used to analyse a sample of 281 Swedish firms. The firms all have less than 200 employees, and the sample includes both manufacturing and service firms. Copyright 2000 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
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2000
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Authors: | Berggren, Bjorn ; Olofsson, Christer ; Silver, Lars |
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Small Business Economics. - Springer. - Vol. 15.2000, 3, p. 233-42
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Springer |
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