SME's working capital requirement is growing because of increasing open accounts in international trade payments. Further, new BIS set of regulation, which allows a lower credit rating for SMEs compared to old BIS and therefore low credit worthy SMEs will experience hard times in getting bank...

International Finance Corporation (IFC) makes selective investments in small businesses that are in frontier countries and have a strong developmental role. Since 2002, the corporation has made 25 or so small direct investments (SDI), most of which turned out to be success stories. Over the...

Who controls the corporate ownership network in the automotive industry: owners, shareholders or financial institutions? Recent studies have suggested that corporate control of automotive firms is increasingly associated with banks, investment funds and other players in the financial system. In...

Little light has been shed on the functioning of business in potential post-growth economies. With this paper, we aim to expand discussions on post-growth economies to the company level and suggest one possible way to connect existing management practise with the fact that, in order to stay...

Krisen sind ein Beschleunigungsfaktor für Transformationsprozesse. Je schneller sich die Rahmenbedingungen für die Geschäftstätigkeit wandeln, umso stärker sind Unternehmen herausgefordert, ihr Geschäftsmodell daran anzupassen und zukunftsfähig zu gestalten. Die Corona-Pandemie 2020 und...