...Ya Bu; Ningxian Jin; Hui Li Purpose This paper examines whether digital inclusive finance alleviates SMEs’ financing constraints and identifies the underlying mechanisms. It further explores whether these effects vary by ownership structure, industry type, and regulatory environment, and whether...

...Charilaos Mertzanis; Asma Houcine Purpose This study employs firm-level data to evaluate how the knowledge economy impacts the financing constraints of businesses across 106 low- and middle-income nations, focusing on the influence of technological transformation on corporate financing choices...

...Omar Farooq; Imad Jabbouri; Maryem Naili Purpose This paper attempts to document the effect of economic uncertainty on financing constraints faced by private firms. Design/methodology/approach Ordered logistic regression is used to analyze the data of private firms from 101 developing...

...Shaista Wasiuzzaman Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between working capital efficiency and firm value and the influence of financing constraints on this relationship. Design/methodology/approach – Data from 192 firms spanning a period of ten years (1999...