Entrepreneurship & Organization Management

Doctor in Methods of Finance and Accounting, University of Sfax, Tunisia

Publications

• Research   
  Social Capital and Access to Banks Loans: Case of Tunisian SMES
  Author(s): Kraima Mohamed Taher*
  
  Several studies on corporate financing highlight the difficult access of SMEs to credit from formal financial institutions. Thus, in addition to these studies, the objective is set to assess how the attributes of social capital can assist the partnership between SMEs and financial institutions and thus facilitate access to credit. Specifically, it aims to test, among various other variables, the effect of social capital in terms of lending to SMEs. Based on data from a sample of 50 companies registered in the directories of industrial companies, drawn by proportional stratified drawing and reasoned choice and processed using descriptive statistics and multiple regressions using a model Log it inspired from previous studies. It is observed that, on the one hand, relationship, honest, social trust are the major components of apprehension of social capital among entrepreneurs in .. Read More»
  

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