We study the impact of both microeconomic factors and the macroeconomy on the financial
distress of Chinese listed companies over a period of massive economic transition, 1995 to …

Abstract Small and Medium Enterprises have a central role for national economic.
Unfortunately, it still has a domain of low productivity, as well as for SMEs on food products …

We study the influences of new-firm start-ups on growth at the regional and macroeconomic
level in France using a quarterly database over the 1993–2011 period. We find that …

SMEs have a significant influence for economic growth in developing countries. Most of
SMEs started as family businesses. Many successful entrepreneurs come from family …

Small and new firms are deemed to be unable to obtain sufficient bank loans. This idea finds
a strong theoretical support in credit rationing theory. However, this is vigorously challenged …

In this article, we analyse the relationships between unemployment rates and new-firm start-
up rates in France. Using a quarterly data basis covering the period 1993 to 2011, we …

The aim of this contribution is to establish a typology of European entrepreneurship
countries with respect to variables related to entrepreneurial activity and economic …

Baumol (1990) observes that if the total number of entrepreneurs varies in different societies
their contribution to growth varies even more according to their allocation in time and space …

We explore what strategies incumbent micro firms adopt when they are faced with different
levels of competition, using longitudinal data from 2134 micro firms in Trento, Italy. We …

This paper investigates the link between close banking relationships and European
manufacturing firms' defaults. Based on binary outcomes (ie, Logit, Probit, Complementary …