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Title: | The success factors for SMEs: Empirical evidence |
Authors: | Félix, Elisabete Gomes Santana dos Santos, José André K. |
Editors: | Galván, Ramón Sanguino |
Keywords: | firm age human resource costs debt venture capital funding investment in innovation and productivity success |
Issue Date: | Jun-2018 |
Publisher: | Abstracts Book of 2nd Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise Research International Conference (EFERIC) |
Citation: | 1. Félix, E.G.S. and Dos Santos, J.A.K.. 2018. The success factors for SMEs: Empirical evidence. Edited by: Ramón Sanguino Galván, Abstracts Book of 2nd Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise Research International Conference (EFERIC), held in the Queen Margaret University (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), from the 27th to the 29th of June 2018, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (ISBN: 978-84-17238-89-6). |
Abstract: | This paper empirically analyzes the success factors for SMEs. Particularly, the paper intends to analyze if
firm age, human resource costs, debt, venture capital funding, investment in innovation and productivity are
success factors for SMEs. The effects were tested using static and dynamic panel data, on a data set of 200
Portuguese SMEs. The use of dynamic panel data is important in order to control for: endogeneity; time-invariant
characteristics; possible collinearity between independent variables; effects from possible omission of
independent variables; elimination of non-observable individual effects; and, the correct estimation of the
relationship between the dependent variable in the previous and current periods. Our results reveal a positive
impact on success of: human resource costs; investments in innovation; productivity; and, venture capital funding.
We also confirm the negative impact of firm age and debt. Also, the results show evidence of persistence in success
for the case of one of the success proxies used. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10174/25146 |
ISBN: | 978-84-17238-89-6 |
Type: | article |
Appears in Collections: | GES - Artigos em Livros de Actas/Proceedings
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