Browsing by Subject "PYMEs"

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    A stakeholder-Theory approach to environmental disclosures by small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
    (2008) Husillos, Javier; Álvarez-Gil, María J.
    The aim of this article is to analyse the reasons that drive Spanish Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to disclose environmental information. The contribution of the present research to the literature on corporate social reporting is threefold: (i) it widens the scope of Stakeholder Theory; (ii) it analyses the environmental reporting disclosures of SMEs; and, for the first time in this field, (iii) it applies Structural Equation Modelling. The results show that stakeholder salience, manager strategic posture and resource availability, though insufficient in themselves, are necessary to explain the environmental performance of SMEs. Moreover, an analysis of the disclosures they make in their annual accounts brings to light the impossibility of gaining insight into the real environmental behaviour of these firms, which raises reasonable doubts over the effectiveness of the relevant environmental reporting regulation in Spain
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    Survival of financially distressed SMEs and out-of-court versus in-court reorganization: explanatory internal factors
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2021) Manzaneque, Montserrat; Merino, Elena; Sánchez, Jesús Antonio
    The Directive (EU) 2019/1023 of 20th June 2019 on preventive restructuring frameworks, have highlighted the need to evaluate, the possibilities of restructuring insolvent companies, but viable in the future. Based on the Theory of Resources, this research aims to identify those internal factors that contribute to explain the differences in the outcome of failure SMEs. To do this, a sample of 6,285 Spanish SMEs that failed in the 2008-2010 period was used and the evolution of each of them during the 2011-2013 period is observed. We have two aims: (1) to identify the internal differences influencing the path of reorganizations versus liquidation of failed SMEs, allowing a diagnosis of the firmt’s economic and financial situation in order to prevent its disappearance; and (2) to recognize significantly internal differences between reorganized outof- court and those reorganized in-court. Specifically, our results reveal that the ability of the firm to create value and to manage the receivable and working capital financial design and the level of historical slack contribute to understand the differences between SMEs that are able to overcome difficult situations and survive of those that are liquidated. In addition, our results also reveal that the level of assets and debts are the main difference between firms that opt for an out-of-court reorganization and those that follow a judicial reorganization process