This study is an extension of current research on insolvency diagnosis. We intend to demonstrate that in small firms, the relevant information for the preventive diagnosis of insolvency can be synthesized in a model built upon a more reduced number of economic and financial ratios than the ones...

The impact of economic distress on the financialstructure decisions of an industry has been under-investigated in the businessliterature.This research investigates the impact of the Portugueserecession of the early and mid 1990s on the financial structure decisions ofbusinesses within the...

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms, where the majority of the labor force in developing countries works? This study developed 26 questions that measure business practices in marketing, stock-keeping,...

Despite the popularity of business training among policy makers, the use of business training has faced increasing skepticism. This is, in part, fueled by the fact that most of the first wave of randomized experiments in developing countries could not detect statistically significant impacts of...