The article presents motives and purposes of provision of loans by non-financial enterprises. Moreover, it describes how provision of loans influences both the internal and market situation of lenders who are not listed on the stock exchange. We point out effects of provision of loans by...

Following Miles and Snow’s Business Strategy (BS) topology, we find that banks imposerelatively higher loan spreads for the firms that follow an Innovation-Oriented Business Strategy(IOBS). We further document that IOBS is positively associated with corporate risk measures suchas variances in...