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Este trabajo pone de manifiesto la necesidad de tener en cuenta los efectos de interacción que se generan entre las pymes y los agentes económicos de su entorno a la hora de determinar la estructura financiera de estas empresas. Para ello, desarrollamos una aplicación empírica sobre una...
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Using data for the Italian Central Guarantee Fund for Small and Medium Enterprises, the paper analyses the effect of partial credit guarantees on firms’ financing. We show that neglecting heterogeneity in guarantee intensities, namely considering all firms as equally treated, leads to a...
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. In particular it focuses on the SME relationship with innovation, which can be a key concept in addressing questions of … more likely to innovate. This study considers aspects affecting SME growth such as age of organisation, institutional … support services, and barriers to growth. Other identified variables relating to the likelihood of SME innovation include …
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SME sector is larger than the growth rate of a number of small and medium-sized enterprises. It also means that the number …
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current approach of entrepreneurs to the accession. This article presents the attitude of the SME’s owners to the …
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The main aim of this paper is to present the methodology of research, carried out in the framework of the project The role of foreign trade in the convergence process. Trading companies - opportunities and risks in the euro zone. The research was conducted in 2013 by a group of researchers...
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This paper is concerned with the role of firm heterogeneity under credit constraints for economic growth. We focus on firm size, innovativeness and credit constraints in a semi-endogenous growth model reflecting recent empirical findings on firm heterogeneity. It allows for an explicit solution...
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) performance in Nigeria. The study offered some relevant recommendations to policy makers, entrepreneurs, and SME managers to … ensure the appropriate scheme to improve the SME sector in Nigeria. …
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Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are vital for a country's economy considering export growth, creation of job opportunities, and general economic development (Mtigwe, 2005). Thus, acknowledging the societal importance of SMEs in general and internationalization of SMEs in particular, it...
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The worldwide market opening and globalization of supply chains demand a series of structural changes where logistics plays a strategic role. Customers evaluate the quality of the product, its added value and its availability in time and form, which involves making processes more efficient. Some...
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