This article models environmental and climate change policies of companies of 40 countries
of the European Union, Eastern Europe, Central Asia & Middle East, and North Africa on …

This study examines the impact of gender diversity on sustainability growth, and moderating
role of family ownership in an emerging economy, Pakistan. We employed 3730 firm-year …

The effect of family ownership on the environmental performance of firms has been
increasingly investigated in the economic and business literature, adopting various …

Owing to information asymmetry, evaluating the credit risk of small-and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs) is difficult. While previous studies evaluating the credit risk of SMEs have …

Using a unique sample of European manufacturing firms, we empirically investigate how
bank lending technologies nd soft information adoption affected firms' credit availability …

Entrepreneurs worldwide often face obstacles in financing their businesses, hindering their
ability to grow. Government procurement offers an opportunity to access lucrative contracts …

Using a unique sample of Italian manufacturing firms, we investigate the impact of
relationship lending on firms' use of trade credit. We find that firms maintaining close and …

This paper explores the relationship between family ownership and a firm's leverage from
the socioemotional wealth (SEW) theory. We propose that SEW objectives (ie, family control …

We conduct a survey among 1922 Swiss SMEs to analyze their access to bank loans. Credit-
constrained SMEs are six times more likely to be discouraged than rejected. The most …

We examine the influence of countries' lending infrastructure on credit rationing for
European SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises). This lending infrastructure …