Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries face severe financing difficulties, especially when trying to expand internationally. “Information friction” is a significant cause of this financing gap. Recent financial technologies (fintech) can improve supply chain...

Sustainability is turning out to be an important element of every lifestyle. It is having a dominant aspect on the purchasing power of the customers therefore the corporates are ensuring that the negative traits towards the environment are well mitigated and controlled. The research undertaken...

Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in developing countries face severe financing difficulties, especially when trying to grow their businesses internationally. One significant cause of this financing gap is informational friction. Various supply chain finance products and solutions are...

Many banks provide supply-chain finance solutions that might include insurance services that further mitigate trade risk such as the default of suppliers. This study proposes the development of an insurance model that uses the Black-Scholes-Merton Model (BSM) (1973) for default prediction and...

Existing literature suggests that the increasing concentration in the retail industry is allowing powerful retailers to exploit their weaker suppliers, which causes the suppliers' performance to suffer. This study takes a collaborative perspective of resource dependency theory and suggests that...

In April 2013, Procter & Gamble (P&G), the world's largest consumer packaged goods (CPG) company, announced that it would extend its payment terms to suppliers by 30 days. At the same time, P&G announced a new supply chain financing (SCF) program giving suppliers the ability to receive...

In this paper, we first identify a number of supply chain activities that require financial knowledge for value creating decision-making. We then recommend a set of financial concepts and techniques for supply chain professionals. In addition, we propose the use of Bloomberg terminals, with...

This article presents the results of a systematic literature review aimed to identify articles, using Web of Science, from over 250 journals focusing on supply chain finance (SCF). We carried out a further content analysis of 161 papers on working capital and trade credit, identifying gaps to...