Resourcing Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
A Financial Growth Life Cycle Approach
Authors: Mac an Bhaird, Ciarán
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In a world of increasing financial uncertainty and growing unemployment, the macroeconomic contribution of SMEs is more important than ever. Development of a vibrant, sustainable small firm sector is dependent on sufficient resourcing of SMEs, particularly adequate capitalisation. This book provides a timely examination of SME financing and determinants of capital structure. A special feature of this book is the novel methodological approach adopted, providing an innovative perspective on SME financing. Analysis of stated financing preferences and objectives of SME owners is combined with results of statistical analysis of firm characteristics in exploring holistic explanations for observed capital structures. The uniqueness of this approach is in the contribution of data on financing preferences to supplement and contextualise results of bivariate and multivariate statistical tests. This methodology extends the SME literature, and is of interest to academics, researchers, practitioners and policy makers.
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The Role of SMEs in Western Economies
Pages 1-21
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SME Financing: A Life Cycle Approach
Pages 23-43
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SME Financing: Investigation of Firm and Industry Effects
Pages 45-76
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SME Owners’ Financing Preferences
Pages 77-103
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Discussion and Conclusions
Pages 105-116
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Resourcing Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
- Book Subtitle
- A Financial Growth Life Cycle Approach
- Authors
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- Ciarán Mac an Bhaird
- Series Title
- Contributions to Management Science
- Copyright
- 2010
- Publisher
- Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-7908-2399-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-7908-2399-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-7908-2398-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-7908-2818-4
- Series ISSN
- 1431-1941
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXII, 210
- Number of Illustrations
- 10 b/w illustrations
- Topics
