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Financial Management Challenges In Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises: A Strategic Management Approach

Emerging Markets Journal

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Title Financial Management Challenges In Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises: A Strategic Management Approach
 
Creator Karadag, Hande
 
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Description Abstract :Due to their significant role in creation of new jobs, rise in GDP, entrepreneurship and innovation, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are recognized as the the drivers of socio-economic growth, both in developed and developing economies. In Turkey, 99.9 % of all enterprises fall into SME category. Therefore, the significance of SMEs for Turkish economy and society is much higher in Turkey, compared to other emerging and developed countries. Small and medium-sized companies are faced with a number of challenges whereas the problems arising from “poor financial management” are reported as the major causes of business failures in SMEs. Strategic financial management (SFM) which is a research area that has attracted the interest of researchers after 2010, is one of the key managerial areas of SMEs, due to its vital role on the survival, growth and performance of SMEs. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the central role of financial management and identify the financial management challenges and practices that influence the organizational performance in Turkish SMEs, from a strategic management perspective. Within the course of this paper, the importance and challenges of SMEs in Turkey are presented in the first section, while the literature on strategic and financial management in SMEs are reviewed in the second part. In the third section, the recent strategic financial management concept, the implications of strategic financial management practices for SMEs in Turkey and the relationships between strategic financial management practices and SME performance, are discussed. Small and medium sized enterprise finance in Turkey is a developing research area, therefore this paper aims to make a significant contribution to the existing literature by analyzing the major challenges at the conduct of financial management in Turkish SMEs and the influence of strategic financial management practices on the performances of small and medium sized companies in Turkey.Additionally, the conceptual framework developed is expected to be useful to academics in developing an agenda for future empirical research.
 
Publisher University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
 
Contributor SMEs, financial management, strategic management, strategic financial management practices
 
Date 2015-02-20
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://emaj.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/emaj/article/view/67
10.5195/emaj.2015.67
 
Source EMAJ: Emerging Markets Journal; Vol 5, No 1 (2015); 26-40
2158-8708
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://emaj.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/emaj/article/view/67/239
 
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