Les caractéristiques des managers comme prédicteurs de faillite des PME belges ?

Loredana Cultrera

Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique, 2016, vol. LV, issue 2, 5-15

Abstract: This article provides the first evidence on whether specific characteristics of managers may explain the outbreak of the business failure process. It highlights the main factors that could cause bankruptcy in Belgian SMEs, through qualitative interviews conducted with experts in the field. These semi-structured interviews, analyzed by using the grounded theory methodology, suggest that the level of education and training of the manager, as well as his ability to respond to a change in his environment and his orientation towards permanent operational and administrative control are the main factors favoring the survival of the firm.

Keywords: bankruptcy; SME; qualitative research; manager characteristics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cairn.info/load_pdf.php?ID_ARTICLE=RPVE_552_0005 (application/pdf)
http://www.cairn.info/revue-reflets-et-perspective ... ue-2016-2-page-5.htm (text/html)
free

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cai:rpvedb:rpve_552_0005

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique from De Boeck Université
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jean-Baptiste de Vathaire ().