This paper focuses on the, often strained, contractual relationships between banks and small firms in the UK. In the UK both the adequacy of the supply of debt finance to small firms (the so-called finance gap) and the contractual conditions attaching to it have frequently been seen as a major...

This paper examines Board pay for a sample of 571 U.K. SMEs from 1991 to 1995. Approximately half of the sample were closely-held (i.e., owner-managed) firms which allowed empirical testing of models of the relationship between Board pay and ownership from control characteristics. Consistent...

This paper examines the performance of a sample of 211 U.K.subcontractors to evaluate whether differences in how they manage their supply chain relationships are associated with differences in (sales and employment)growth rates over two consecutive 3 year periods from 1993 to 1999.We identified...