pt. 1. Contextualizing the link between factors and effects of new firms' formation -- pt. 2. Understanding the importance of access to finance and to available support systems -- pt. 3. Accounting for the interplay between the individual and the organizational levels and the firm's behaviour...

The determinants of corporate failure in Italian, Spanish and French small and medium-sized enterprises are investigated in order to find out whether the predictors of financial distress in the countries are the same or not. In order to compare the determinants of financial distress,...