Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Business Demography and European Socio-Economic Model: Does the Paradigm Really Converge?

Journal of Risk and Financial Management

Mile Vasic¹  IleanaGeorgiana Gheorghe²  JeanVasile Andrei²  Violeta Sima²  Teodor Sedlarski³  Aleksandar Grubor⁴  Jonel Subić⁵  Luminita Chivu⁶ 

[1] European Marketing and Management Association, 5 Knezopoljska Street, 78000 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina;Faculty of Economic Sciences, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, B-dul Bucuresti, No. 39, 100680 Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania;Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, 125 Tsarigradsko Shose Blvd., bl.3, Sofia 1113, Bulgaria;Faculty of Economics in Subotica, University of Novi Sad, Segedinskiput 9-11, 24000 Subotica, Serbia;Institute of Agricultural Economics, Volgina 15, 11060 Belgrade, Serbia;National Institute of Economic Research, “Costin C. Kiriţescu”, Romanian Academy, Casa Academiei Române, Calea 13 September, no. 13, Sector 5, 050711 Bucharest, Romania;

关键词: economic performance;    business model;    SME’s;    business demography;    productivity;    employment;   

DOI  :  10.3390/jrfm14020064

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Although the European business environment induces important premises and assures conditions in determining economic growth and social well-being, the determinant and existent connections between the evolution of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), business demography characteristics and the European socio-economic model have been scarcely studied in recent years. The dimensions of the European socio-economic model design a very specific framework in developing business demography and assuring a favorable environment for future SME development. The main aim of the manuscript is to investigate the evolution of the European SMEs sector and the perspective of business demography evolution to converge with exigencies of the European socio-economic model. In order to argue the research objective, eight specific and representative business demography variables were employed, from 12 European Union member states (EU-MS), during 2009–2017. Further, the SMEs’ performances, determined by changing the economic functional paradigm, were assessed. For proving this, an econometric model was designed considering labor productivity as an endogenous variable. Our preliminary analysis shows considerable differences in business demography indicators and SMEs development among all five socio-economic sub-models of the main European socio-economic model, proving a tight connection between European socio-economic models and SMEs’ performance and arguing the necessity of a paradigm convergence. Within some sub-models, there is clear evidence of clustering and convergence in terms of business demography and SMEs future development.

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