...Bernard Owens Imarhiagbe; David Smallbone; George Saridakis; Robert Blackburn; Anne-Marie Mohammed The article uses the cross-sectional dataset from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) for 2009 to examine access to finance for SMEs and the court system...

... by most of the enterprises in the study are access to finance, electricity, access to land, customs and trade regulations and tax rates. These obstacles are associated in different ways to growth rate (high vs low growth), scale (small and medium vs large), age, size of employees, the experience...

...Shaista Wasiuzzaman; Nabila Nurdin; Aznur Hajar Abdullah; Gowrie Vinayan Purpose This study investigates the influence of inter-firm linkages between small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and large firms on the relationship between an SME's creditworthiness and its access to finance. Design...

...Javed Hussain; Samuel Salia; Amin Karim Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between financial literacy, access to finance and growth among small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) within the Midlands region of the UK. It assesses whether financial literacy assists...