Improving small and medium-size enterprise performance: Does working capital management enhance the effectiveness of financial inclusion?

Title: Improving small and medium-size enterprise performance: Does working capital management enhance the effectiveness of financial inclusion?
Creator: Bhattacharyya, Asit; Rahman, Md Lutfur; Wright, Sue
Relation: Accounting and Finance Vol. 63, Issue 4, p. 3943-3969
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acfi.13081
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2023
Description: Growth of the small and medium-size enterprise (SME) sector is traditionally an important driver of overall economic growth, particularly in emerging economies. SME growth is enhanced by access to finance (financial inclusion). In this study, we show that efficient working capital management has a positive influence on performance that is independent of the effect of financial inclusion. Our results remain robust to alternative measurements and estimations, and may be useful to national policy-makers in developing strategies for SMEs' greater access to finance and introducing ways of improving financial management education and training for SME managers.
Subject: financial inclusion; performance; small and medium-size enterprise (SME); working capital management; SDG 1; SDG 8; SDG 9; Sustainable Development Goals
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1494439
Identifier: uon:53793
Identifier: ISSN:0810-5391
Rights: x
Language: eng
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