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...

Whenever there is a crisis in the corporate world or the economy more generally, the same questions continue to surface: What is the purpose of a corporation? Is the purpose of a corporation simply to make money? Or do they have a broader role in society? Do corporations also have a social...

We study the international transmission of shocks from the banking to the real sector during the global financial crisis. For identification, we use matched bank-firm level data, covering mainly small and medium-sized firms in Eastern Europe and Turkey, and exploit the Lehman failure. We find...

Due to globalization and the fast-changing international business environment, manufacturer SMEs have difficulties finding a well-fitting entry mode for themselves. In this study, we have used resource-based, transaction cost, and eclectic theories to explain how we can create a new entry mode...

This paper uses firm level data from the Flash Eurobarometer 421 survey conducted in June 2015 in 34 European countries to investigate the link between having a website and international firm activities in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). We find that firms which are present in the web...

The fact that a business started small is not an absolute transcendental sentence to perpetual littleness & ordinariness. This conviction set the stage for the conduct of this study. The prime task was to examine the transformational financing window of venture capital (VC) and its...

We study the international transmission of shocks from the banking to the real sector during the global financial crisis. For identification, we use matched bank-firm level data, including many small and medium-sized firms, in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We find that...

Spanish Abstract: En el 2009 la Junta de Normas de Contabilidad Internacional, (IASB) (por sus siglas en inglés) emitió las NIIF para las pequeñas y medianas empresas (PYMES). De acuerdo con la firma Deloitte (2012), más del 50% de las compañías de Global Fortune 500 usan las NIIF para la...