Purpose: This paper investigates how entrepreneurial finance in Qatar affects the performance of small and entrepreneurship businesses (SEB). It is the first study examining the financial decisions of SEB in Qatar, illustrating the advantages and disadvantages of traditional and innovative...

This study estimates the factors influencing micro and small enterprise financial performance in the non-farm sector of Ghana. Data was sourced from Ghana ECG/ISSER Socio-Economic Panel Survey in 2010. The study is underpinned by the resource-based view theory of firm performance. Ordinary least...

Previous research fails to investigate the impact of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) on financial and non-financial performances of target firms. This study aims to fill the gap by using quantile regression technique on a sample of non-commodity SWFs and their target firms in five countries,...

Globally, the unravelling of the corporate scandals leading to big multinational firms stumbling down to bankruptcy suits caused enormous loss of wealth to the investors. This study explores how the earnings management and capital structure can signal an early stage of the distressed financial...

This study aims to examine the impact of firm characteristics and ownership structure on the firm efficiency of listed non-financial firms in Pakistan from 2012 to 2017. Firm characteristics include market capitalization, cash holdings, book-to-market ratio and negative book-to-market ratio and...

The recent covid 19 has increased the challenges for worldwide businesses to manage working capital. Compared to the studies on the financial crisis of 2008, management of working capital and firm performance relation during the covid 19 is less studied, particularly in developing countries....

This study focuses on short-term investment and financing decisions influenced by a firm’s working capital policy and the effect of working capital policies on the financial performance of manufacturing firms in Malaysia. Working capital policies were measured by working capital financing and...

This study extends the literature on financial literacy and cultural (Catholicism or Protestantism) beliefs to SME performance in a developing economy setting. Two basic questions motivated the study: (1) does culture influence financial literacy?; and (2) does culture mediate the relationship...

This study aims to examine the effects of market orientation and SCM strategy on SME financial performance and operational performance by using market performance as the mediating variable. A simple random sampling technique was employed. A total of 150 SME managers and owners participated in...

If a company’s corporate performance forecasting bias is not zero and it continues to over- or under-predict actual performance, capital investments and employment will deviate from their expected levels. Therefore, forecast bias is a very important issue for a company’s management. However,...