The paper focuses on the first public programs in Spain to support the introduction of cloud computing services for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and micro-SMEs, and facilitating the digital transformation of SMEs, stimulating e-commerce and encouraging competitiveness. The paper...

The objective of this work is to evaluate the risk of business mortality. Considering a sample of over 11,741 firms in the textile-clothing sector, the influence that factors such as age, geographic density (district effect) and the principal productive activity (subsector effect) have on...

Small businesses, the majority of Spanish firms, rarely file for formal bankruptcy when dealing with financial distress. This is why business bankruptcy rates in Spain are among the lowest in the world, even during the current economic crisis. To explain this fact we present the following...