Impact of selected characteristics of SMES on the capital structure

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/jbem.2018.6583" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/jbem.2018.6583</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/jbem.2018.6583" target="_blank" >10.3846/jbem.2018.6583</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Impact of selected characteristics of SMES on the capital structure

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The optimal capital structure is a key precondition for business, even though defining the optimal capital structure is difficult. The available studies present many different and mutually contradictory factors that need to be taken into account in the strategic financial decisions of managers. Their importance and intensity are different for individual business entities. Given the specificities of companies in the SME segment, achieving an optimal capital structure is a challenging task as there is no model of an optimal capital structure that can be universally applied in corporate practice. For this reason, we decided to realize our research. The main aim of the paper is to identify determinants of the SME’s capital structure. We studied the impact of four determinants: region, business area, number of employees and business duration, on the manager’s decisions about capital structure in the enterprise. Our research is based on the database ‘Albertina’, which consist of all SME in the Czech Republic. We applied ordinal logistic regression and estimated five models. These models were used to predict attitude of SME to the capital structure. Analysis was done in R Software. The main finding is that the size of the company measured by the number of employees effects its attitude to volume of foreign and own capital used to finance its activities. Analysis also showed that entrepreneurs with longer duration of taking their business prefer more foreign capital than their own capital. Business area and region where enterprise is located do not significantly affect capital structure.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Impact of selected characteristics of SMES on the capital structure

Popis výsledku anglicky

The optimal capital structure is a key precondition for business, even though defining the optimal capital structure is difficult. The available studies present many different and mutually contradictory factors that need to be taken into account in the strategic financial decisions of managers. Their importance and intensity are different for individual business entities. Given the specificities of companies in the SME segment, achieving an optimal capital structure is a challenging task as there is no model of an optimal capital structure that can be universally applied in corporate practice. For this reason, we decided to realize our research. The main aim of the paper is to identify determinants of the SME’s capital structure. We studied the impact of four determinants: region, business area, number of employees and business duration, on the manager’s decisions about capital structure in the enterprise. Our research is based on the database ‘Albertina’, which consist of all SME in the Czech Republic. We applied ordinal logistic regression and estimated five models. These models were used to predict attitude of SME to the capital structure. Analysis was done in R Software. The main finding is that the size of the company measured by the number of employees effects its attitude to volume of foreign and own capital used to finance its activities. Analysis also showed that entrepreneurs with longer duration of taking their business prefer more foreign capital than their own capital. Business area and region where enterprise is located do not significantly affect capital structure.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50204 - Business and management

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of Business Economics and Management

ISSN

1611-1699

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

19

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

LT - Litevská republika

Počet stran výsledku

17

Strana od-do

592-608

Kód UT WoS článku

000453042900002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85062273785