Under the sustainability strategy, a company's ability to enhance its financing capacity
through improvements in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance is …

This article uses panel data to test the extent to which trade credit acted as a substitute for
bank finance in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), in the aftermath of the …

Using micro-data on small-and medium-sized enterprises, this paper empirically
investigates the “signalling hypothesis” formulated on the role of trade credit (Biais and …

We investigate the relation between local financial development and trade credit in an
integrated financial market. Our results suggest that trade credit complements the formal …

We investigate the relation between social capital and firms' use of trade credit in the USA.
We also estimate the extent to which social capital is both directly and indirectly related to …

The vast majority of firms in Europe are micro firms. Still, we know little about their financing
patterns. Our paper aims to close this gap. Based on a large European firm-level data set …

Purpose Bootstrapping is a practitioner-based term adopted in entrepreneurship to describe
the techniques employed in micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to …

With the increasing frequency and intensity of destructive weather events, firms' access to
financing following disasters is critical. Few studies have investigated firms' access to trade …

Considering the Italian legal environment, this work aims to shed new light on the behavior
of SMEs under financial constraints, investigating how the inefficiency of courts in enforcing …

How does an entrepreneur's social capital improve small informal business productivity?
Although studies have investigated this relationship, we still know little about the underlying …