ESTG - DM - Métodos de Apoio à Decisão Empresarial
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- Determinants of financial performance during macroeconomic turbulencesPublication . Coelho, Fernando Rui Barbosa; Duarte, Fábio; Borges, AnaDespite a broadly studied topic, only a small part of literature on business performance explicitly devotes attention to the causality effects between organizational behavior, business strategies or economic environment and (ex post) firm performance. The majority of studies addresses the topic for firms listed in the stock market and none of them explicitly analyzes the role of macroeconomic turbulences on business performance in a bank-based system. Overcoming this empirical gap, this study addresses the performance of SMEs operating in the wholesale of electrical household appliances sector. Our results revealed that there is a U-Shaped relation between performance, age, and debt-to-equity ratio. First hand results are provided about the relation between innovation, internationalization, tangibility, liquidity, ownership structure and Portuguese SMEs’ business performance belongs to NACE 46430. Macroeconomic turbulences revealed a crucial role on financial performance.