72nd International Atlantic Economic Conference

October 20 - 23, 2011 | Washington, USA

Failure paths of the SME sector

Friday, 21 October 2011: 5:55 PM
Jaroslaw Ropega, Ph.D. , Department of Entrepreneurship and Industrial Policy, University of Lodz, Faculty of Management, Lodz, Poland
Failure paths of SME sector

Today’s SMEs are real participants in the economic system changes that began several years ago and whose effects now affect the economy. Despite the significant changes that have occurred since then, the companies of the SME sector continues to be created, developed and liquidated based on a mechanism of entrepreneurship.

Functioning of the SME sector firms is accompanied by the phenomenon of business  failure. Author of publication analyzes the processes of business failures typical for companies in this sector. The study presents already existing in the canon of literature descriptions of failures trajectories  and attempts  to show the new paths of business failures of the SME sector.