This study analyzes the role of personal guarantees and collateral in the context of two different lending structures, one transaction - and the other relationship-based. The Finnish bank data which were uniquely accessible for the study enabled an exploration of credit files with specific...

This paper offers a social network explanation for the purported relationship between internationalization and firm performance in the context of born global small and medium enterprises (SMEs). We argue that home-based social networks play a mediating role in the relationship between inward and...

The current trend of business model research shows an increased endeavour of conceptualizing business frameworks for circular economy (CE). While previous sustainability paradigms have failed to attract market stakeholders, their reaction differ regarding this concept. The reason is discovering...

This paper focuses on a new concern in the small firm’s literature, namely what makes a small firm stay in business for a long time. It reflects a change in economic policy, away from an emphasis on volume of start-ups to an emphasis on quality of start-ups. The basic hypothesis is that...

Limited access of small enterprises to reliable and well-prepared information about their condition is mentioned as one of the main barriers to small business development. One of the key types of information used in management is financial information. It concerns the resources and financial...

Die weltweite Corona-Pandemie hat die globale Wirtschaft stark beeinflusst und weiterhin fest im Griff; nahezu alle Branchen sind betroffen. Von den Konsequenzen sind auch die kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU), die mit einem Anteil von über 99% aller Unternehmen das Herzstück der deutschen...

Using Germany as an example, this article examines how different groups of small andmedium-sized enterprises were impacted by and recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic.The study found that at the onset of the pandemic, turnover losses were experienced notjust by enterprises regarded as poor...

IT-Compliance als Teilbereich der IT-Governance erlangt derzeit wachsende Bedeutung. Dass die Forderung nach Gesetzestreue trivial erscheint, offenbar jedoch nicht ist, belegen allein schon die in 2008 bekannt gewordenen Compliance-Verstöße. Diesbezüglich wird die Befolgung der Vorschriften...

Für westeuropäische Unternehmen im Allgemeinen und für westeuropäische kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) im Besonderen bildete die politische und wirtschaftliche Marktöffnung in Mittel- und Osteuropa (MOE) zu Beginn der 1990er Jahre und die Integration vieler dieser...

Poverty rates on Native American Indian reservations are triple the US average. Small business incubation programs, available elsewhere in the US, are sparse on the reservations. Small businesses are potent drivers of US economic growth. Some 25.5 million entrepreneurs generate more than 50% of...