Ge Wang, Huijin Zhang, Bo Xia, Guangdong Wu et al.
Since the financial crisis in 2008, the international construction market has shown a relatively weak state of development. Along with China’s “Belt and Road Initiative,” an increasing number of Chinese construction firms have swarmed to explore the global market and expect to improve their financia...
Md. Shahnur Azad Chowdhury, Md. Kazi Golam Azam, Serajul Islam
The present study is conducted to analyze the potential of SMEs in the economy of Bangladesh. Data were collected from 100 SME units by using simple random technique. A structural questionnaire was developed to get the responses from different SME units in the country. For Bangladesh SMEs have assum...
Ran Duchin
ABSTRACT This paper studies the relation between corporate liquidity and diversification. The key finding is that multidivision firms hold significantly less cash than stand‐alone firms because they are diversified in their investment opportunities. Lower cross‐divisional correlations in investment ...
Sohani Islam
Cash holding decision is one of the most significant decisions taken by the financial managers of anymanufacturing firms. The decision not only depends upon the theoretical view but also the firm–specificvariables of the economy along with the macro economic variables. This paper aims to determine w...
Rhys Jenkins, Kunal Sen
This paper investigates the impact of international trade on manufacturing employment in developing countries, by undertaking a comparative study of four countries—Bangladesh, Kenya, South Africa and Vietnam. It does so by employing a variety of methodological approaches: factor content; growth acco...
Md. Musfiqur Rahman, Md. Shuvo Howlader
Purpose The main purpose of the study is to analyze the impact of research and development (R&D) expenditure on firm performance and firm value in an emerging economy. Design/methodology/approach In this study, firm performance is examined by firm financial performance (return on asset (ROA) and...
John Mendy, Mahfuzur Rahman, P. Matthijs Bal
Abstract The way this study has used the “best‐fit” approach has facilitated the investigation of how three hypothesized constructs of political, economic, and social barriers can deepen our knowledge of their impacts on small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs)' internationalization within a small ...
Hiau Looi Kee, Kala Krishna
This paper looks at the predictions of a standard heterogeneous firm model regarding the exports of firms across markets in response to a particular trade policy experiment and compares these predictions to the data. A unique feature of our data is that it has information on the exports of the same ...
David Gisselquist, G. Jean-Marie
In the past few decades many developing countries have liberalized trade and investment, removing barriers to imports and allowing the introduction of new foreign technologies. Unfortunately, agriculture often remains outside this reform process. Regulatory obstacles continue to restrain the transfe...
Livia Alfonsi, Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess et al.
We design a labor market experiment to compare demand- and supply-side policies to tackle youth unemployment, a key issue in low-income countries. The experiment tracks 1700 workers and 1500 firms over four years to compare the effect of offering workers either vocational training (VT) or firm-provi...
Mohammad Monirul Islam, Farha Fatema
Purpose This study examines the survival probability of the firms during the COVID-19 pandemic and identifies the effects of pandemic-era business strategies on firm survival across sectors and sizes. Design/methodology/approach This study combines World Bank Enterprise Survey data with three consec...
Anjali S. Kumar, Manuela Francisco
No AccessWorld Bank Working Papers12 Aug 2013Enterprise Size, Financing Patterns, and Credit Constraints in BrazilAnalysis of Data from the Investment Climate Assessment SurveyAuthors/Editors: Anjali Kumar, Manuela FranciscoAnjali Kumar, Manuela Franciscohttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-6129-5Sections...
Meier Meier, Pilgrim Pilgrim
For some years, a number of Asian developing countries have promoted the growth of small enterprises through direct assistance, at the same time as allowing the macro-economic environment, such as trade and exchange rate policies, to favour large-scale industries.This article examines the cases of N...
Robert Cressy
Abstract Many excellent surveys of the literature on business growth and survival have appeared in the last decade. This article focuses on small firm literature on survival and growth, drawing on largely non-size-specific surveys only when the intersection between their subject matter and that of s...
Mahfuzur Rahman, Dieu Hack‐Polay, Sujana Shafique, Paul Agu Igwe
Purpose Internationalisation is considered as a key strategy for the growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between dynamic capability, SMEs internationalisation and firm performance in the context of emerging economies and to evaluate...