Purpose: This paper analyses the evolution of the financial inclusion and its main determinants in seven Latin American countries. Design/methodology/approach: The database used is the Global Findex from the World Bank for the latest data released that includes the years 2011 and 2014. The...

This paper examines the post-pandemic performance of micro, small, and medium-sized firms using Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs), a type of Artificial Neural Network that groups patterns based on their similarities. The goal is to identify the key characteristics that enable firms to face market...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to organize and present the literature related to firm’s capital structure across the years and find the most relevant publications and authors in the research area. Moreover, the authors pretend to fill the gap in the literature by studying different...

The "recovered businesses" are firms that after facing economic difficulties to continue to operate have been managed by staff with the clear intention to continue the operation with auto-coordination, usually taking the form of Cooperative Work. This phenomenon has intensively taken place after...

The aim of this paper is to find the causes of the failure and diagnose a group of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through a fuzzy logic model. The application to a specific sector involves the adaptation of the methodological hypothesis presented in the theoretical model and the...

The aim of this paper is to improve one of the limitations of the fuzzy models of business failure. In this sense an application to a group of small and medium -sized enterprises (SMEs) from the construction sector is introduced in a given time horizon to test the diagnosis model capacity to...

The aim of this paper is to improve one of the limitations of the fuzzy models of business failure. In this sense an application to a group of small and medium –sized enterprises (SMEs) from the construction sector is introduced in a given time horizon to test the diagnosis model capacity to...