Banks have no time for complacency. They need to re-evaluate their competitive advantages
in light of profound changes driven by advances in information technology (IT) and …

Fintech technologies have become increasingly important in the banking industry, as they
allow alternative effective means to interact with clients and collect hard information, ie …

We test in a European context the impact of countries' lending infrastructure on SMEs (small
and medium sized enterprises) capital structure. Devised from Berger and Udell (2006), this …

The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of collateral for small and medium
enterprises (SMEs) in the context of Visegrad countries: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic …

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

A major challenge to SME growth has been access to credit meanwhile literature exploring
the effects of lending methodologies on credit access has paid little attention to how credit …

This qualitative study sets out to determine from the perspective of bankers the factors that
affect SME access to bank loans. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 Turkish …

This paper explores the determinants of access to finance for small and medium enterprises
(SMEs) in the context of three Central European countries: Czech Republic, Slovak …

This study examines how perceived value of microfinance and exploratory innovation affect
small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) performance in the context of a developing …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of family CEOs' relational capital and non-
family CEOs' managerial skills in the context of bank relationships for a large sample of …