Credit unions play a relevant role in providing microcredit and other financial services.
Because such financial cooperative organizations have drawn the attention of a significant …

This article provides a comprehensive assessment of private firms' financing sources and
their relation with financial reporting practices. We consider debt financing (bank financing …

This paper introduces the Special Issue. It reviews the response of financial institutions to
the global financial crisis in the provision of loan and equity finance to SMEs, and highlights …

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which account for 96% of businesses in Nigeria are
often forced to close because they lack access to funds. The purpose of this multiple case …

According to the US Small Business Association, the failure rates for small businesses in
2014 were as high as 50% to 80% within the first 5 years of establishment. The purpose for …

The chapter examines the role of volunteer business mentoring in potentially improving
financing and financial management in under-served (ie schemes aim to assist deprived …

We leverage a transaction costs narrative to provide a theoretically unified presentation of
the evolution of exchange, with the latest evolutionary frontier being cryptocurrency and …

This study investigates the relationship between transactional and transformational
leadership styles, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior …

Small businesses accounted for 99% of the firms in private industry, provided 38% of the
goods and services sold in the United States, and hired 55% of the labor force each year …

Le financement des petites entreprises (PE) demeure une préoccupation essentielle à
laquelle cet article s' intéresse à travers l'étude du sujet encore peu abordé de la décision …