Effect of firm size on survivability of Small and Medium-size Enterprises (SMEs) is of great importance. Researchers have dealt with this issue using diverse analysis methods. The tool we used for such analysis in this work is the Survival Index Value (SIV) model. To our knowledge, this method has never been used before to study the issue of firm size and small firm survivability. We found that higher firm size do not enhance survivability of SMEs with a positive slope of their Survival Progression Indicator (SPI) line, neither it does that for firms with negative slope of the SPI line. However, no evidence was found to support the common understanding that reducing firm size would enhance survivability of firms with negative SPI line. Increasing firm size was found to have positive effect on survival of firms with a slope of the SPI line close to zero. Keywords: Small and Medium-size Enterprise, SMEs, SIV model, Firm Size, Relative Size of Enterprise, Survival Progression Indicator, Survivability
Download Info
To download:
If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the
proper application to
view it first. Information about this may be contained
in the File-Format links below. In case of further problems read
the IDEAS help
page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS
site. Please be patient as the files may be large.
Publisher Info
Paper provided by European Regional Science Association in its series ERSA conference papers with number
ersa03p14.