Equity crowdfunding: First resort or last resort?

X Walthoff-Borm, A Schwienbacher… - Journal of Business …, 2018 - Elsevier
Prior research has focused on the factors that affect funding success on equity crowdfunding
platforms, but a detailed understanding of the factors that drive firms to search for equity …

Challenges and issues facing ethnic minority small business owners: The Scottish experience

MZ Rahman, F Ullah… - The International Journal …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Studies investigating the challenges and barriers faced by ethnic minority entrepreneurs
have often concentrated on areas where there is a large supportive ethnic minority …

Barriers to ethnic minority and women's enterprise: Existing evidence, policy tensions and unsettled questions

S Carter, S Mwaura, M Ram… - International Small …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
This article presents an overarching review of the evidence regarding enterprise diversity. It
discusses the context of ethnic minorities and women in enterprise and summarises …

Finance and women's entrepreneurship in DETEs: A literature review

E Shaikh, MN Tunio, F Qureshi - … Finance, Innovation and …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
The aim of this chapter is to explore the various funding sources for women's
entrepreneurship which promote the entrepreneurial activities undertaken in developing …

[PDF][PDF] The impact of firm and entrepreneurial characteristics on access to debt finance by SMEs in King Williams' town, South Africa

O Fatoki, F Asah - International Journal of Business and management, 2011 - Citeseer
SMEs contribute positively to economic growth, employment and poverty alleviation in South
Africa. However, the failure rate of SMEs is very high in South Africa. One of the factors …

Gender, risk and finance: why can't a woman be more like a man?

S Marlow, J Swail - Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Whilst acknowledging that the influence of gender upon women's business ownership is
now included as a legitimate addition to the contemporary entrepreneurship research …

Stigma and business failure: implications for entrepreneurs' career choices

SA Simmons, J Wiklund, J Levie - Small business economics, 2014 - Springer
We use data from global entrepreneurship monitor to examine the act of entrepreneurial
reentry by entrepreneurs who exit a failed business. We study reentry by mode of entry and …

Bank debt and trade credit for SMEs in Europe: firm-, industry-, and country-level determinants

G Andrieu, R Staglianò, P Van Der Zwan - Small Business Economics, 2018 - Springer
This paper examines differences in the ability to obtain capital—bank loans and trade credit—
between firms, industries, and countries using survey data on European small and medium …

Perceived financial barriers and the start-up decision: An econometric analysis of gender differences using GEM data

S Roper, JM Scott - International Small Business Journal, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Although accessing finance is key to the foundation of any business, particular concerns
have been expressed about the ability of UK women-owned firms to obtain external finance …

The cost of growth: small firms and the pricing of bank loans

A Rostamkalaei, M Freel - Small Business Economics, 2016 - Springer
Drawing upon data from the 2007 UK Survey of SME Finance, the current analysis is
concerned with the extent to which growth firms are discriminated on price in loan markets …