Exit is an important part of the entrepreneurial lifecycle. In contrast to numerous previous studies on entry, however, little attention has been paid to entrepreneurial exit, and much less on exit modes thus far. Using a recent original survey data on small business owners in New Zealand, where...

This paper tests whether local financial development matters for SMEs' growth performance. We develop a theoretical model framework based on banks' and firms' profit-maximizing behavior that critically hinges upon credit default risk ratio. We argue that an expansion of branch network would...

The paper intends to understand the research trends in "Covid-19 and SME" through a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) and extract themes to explore the most affected areas of SMEs during the Covid-19 pandemic. Subsequently, the study attempts to know the struggles of SME during Covid-19 crisis...