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The purpose of this special issue is to examine small businesses, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and show that … different advantages and drawbacks with innovation, but small businesses provide the most conducive environment for … entrepreneurship and innovation that are not necessarily sustained by the know-how and resources characteristic of large …
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This paper examines the dynamic asymmetric relationship between changes in the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) cash … borrowing for small businesses in Australia by 2.21 %. These findings indicate that small businesses have limited time to …
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The performance implications of family ownership have been studied extensively. However, studies that investigate the influence of family ownership on small business growth remain scarce and suffer from several shortcomings. To remedy these shortcomings, this paper uses a very large sample of...
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Do credit risk transfers in general, and loan sales and securitizations in particular, by financial institutions enhance credit availability and financial stability? Or do they allow assets of poor credit quality to spread to unprotected investors, and thus create financial crises and destroy...
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Microfinance institutions (MFIs) target people excluded from the traditional banking system. By providing start-up capital to these under-financed individuals, they enable a greater number of women to start their own business, particularly in sectors where initial capital requirements are high....
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In this article, we examine how the level of regulation affects the size distribution of businesses. To the extent that regulation functions as a fixed cost, it should lead to larger firm size. However, regulations may also lead to smaller establishments with firms outsourcing regulated...
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Previous research in small-business financing has generally ignored those businesses owned equally by males and females. The rationale has been that such businesses share the characteristics of both types of owners and would confound any gender-based differences. This paper presents an empirical...
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This paper develops a structural model to investigate the direct and indirect effects of owner–manager and company characteristics and selected management practices on the financial performance of a sample of 218 small Belgian construction companies. The results show that the owner–manager...
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