Micro-businesspeople, Patrícia and Fernando, need to decide if they are going to continue with their company’s incipient social responsibility program. The case illustrates the typical management processes of a micro-enterprise ...

This article investigates the determinant factors of supply and demand for trade credit by micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), using data collected in a survey of managers from 481 firms in 32 cities in the ...

This article focuses on the determinants of firm's growth in Brazil. In particular it investigates the individual characteristics of firm that determine its growth; how institutional development affects firm's performance, ...

When large Transnational Corporations (TNCs) enter a host country, consequent development of local Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is expected. The public sector may play an important role by fostering Business Linkages ...

This study investigates the determinants of the ways to conduct working capital practices in micro and small enterprises (MSEs), using the foundations of firm life cycle, resource based view, trade credit, agency and ...

From the 1970s, the importance of small business - SB - started to be increasingly recognized, mainly because of its role in generating employment. Among the measures taken by the Brazilian government to encourage and ...

Os desafios globais da sustentabilidade estão moldando os negócios internacionais. Para algumas empresas, isso representa barreiras. Para outras, especialmente as micro e pequenas, pode ser fonte de grandes oportunidades.

This article aims to understand the relationships between small companies and external innovation agents and how they can help strengthening these organisations. A multiple case research method was adopted by the researchers ...