The study explored the benefits of Enterprise Resource Planning systems to small and medium enterprises in the Kingdom of Bahrain on improvement in decision-making ability, employee performance monitoring, resource management, cost reductions, cycle time reductions and organizational benefits...

The purpose of this exploratory study is the examination of the complex interactions among variables that affect the performance of European manufacturing SMEs by using a hierarchical log linear model. In the present study, firm performance is empirically measured in terms of turnover growth....

Using survey based data, we investigate factors influencing credit rationing within a bank-based financial system. We show that rationing depends on various dimensions of the firm-bank relationships and that the effects of relationship lending on rationing are not identical for different firm...

During the past years, developing countries have become extremely interesting for researchers, as well as for capital investors. Dominated by growth and industrialization, but lacking macroeconomic indicator stability or sufficiently mature financial markets, these countries make it acutely...

Small and medium enterprises contribute significantly to achieve the fundamental objectives of any national economy. They play an important role in the economy for reasons such as: to encourage innovation and flexibility; to integrate easily into a regional industrial network, which contributes...

This paper presents an empirical examination of firm characteristic determinants of the capital structure of a sample of 299 Irish small and medium sized firms (SMEs). Hypotheses formulated from pecking order and agency theories incorporating a financial growth life cycle approach are tested on...