Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the firm-level financial variables affecting the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach The study applies a resource-based view to analyze the firm-level as well as industry-level determinants of SME growth....

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the Granger causal link between bank lending and housing prices. Design/methodology/approach: Several econometric methods, including Granger causality tests based on a vector error correction model, were applied to analyse monthly time series...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate determinants of financial distress among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) during the global financial crisis and post-crisis periods. Design/methodology/approach: Several statistical methods, including multiple binary...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine capital structure determinants of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) during and after the global financial crisis. Design/methodology/approach: Statistical methods, including ordinary least squares and the generalised method...

Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to describe and analyse the relationship between the 2008–2009 global financial crisis and small and medium-sized enterprises' cost of debt capital. Design/methodology/approach: Statistical methods, including multiple OLS and dynamic panel data, were...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate the relationship between a set of functional and social–psychological barriers and bank customers’ intention to fully adopt digital payment methods (DPMs). Design/methodology/approach: The data were collected via an online...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine organizational-level determinants of commercial bank profitability. Design/methodology/approach: Using bank-level longitudinal panel data for the 2005–2014 period, this study conducts univariate and multivariate statistical analyses, i.e....

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between firm sales growth and employment level as a proxy for job creation among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach: The hypotheses were empirically examined by performing several univariate...