Barriers, Determinants, Financial Support Mechanisms in Green SME Areas

Robert Kuceba () and Waldemar Jedrzejczyk ()

Theory Methodology Practice (TMP), 2015, vol. 11, issue 02, 23-30

Abstract: In the present paper the authors investigated barriers, determinants and financing sources (own and external capital) of planned and performed pro-ecological activities/investments in SMEs. The variables were aggregated on the basis of data from the European Commission and the authors’ own research in Polish enterprises of the SME sector, through purposeful selection (enterprises declaring pro-environmental activity). The authors distinguished an overarching determinant of pro-ecological activity in the SME sector, unique compared to large-scale enterprises: the convergence of pro-ecological activeness and cost reduction of own basic activity.

Keywords: Ecological Activities; SMEs; Barriers and Determinants of Pro-ecological Activity; Financing Sources of Ecological Activities; European Union Funding (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L25 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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