Lean strategy, aimed at optimizing resources, minimizing energy usage, and achieving zero waste in the production process, has been increasingly embraced to reduce systemwide costs in manufacturing. However, practitioners in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often lack the necessary...

This paper examines the impact of the US-China trade war on the operating performance of Chinese export-oriented SMEs with US customer concentration. Using a unique dataset derived from textual analysis and company information from the New Third Board Market, we employ matched pairs analysis to...

The 2015 HMDA Rule required that financial institutions that originated no fewer than 25 closed-end mortgage loans in each of the two preceding years and meet other reporting criteria such as asset and locational tests report their closed-end mortgage activities under HMDA. This “25-loan”...

Supply chain finance (SCF) has attracted considerable attention being an innovative business model that allows firms, especially small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to convert illiquid assets into cash without incurring additional liabilities. However, its effects on SME performance and...