Do social capital building strategies influence the financing behavior of Chinese private small and medium-sized enterprises?

Abstract

Using data from 65,485 Chinese private small and medium-sized enterprises over the period 2000-2006, we examine the extent to which firms can improve access to debt by adopting strategies aimed at building social capital, namely entertaining and gift giving to others in their social network, and obtaining political affiliation. We find that although entertainment and gift-giving expenditure leads to higher levels of total and short-term debt, it does not enable firms to obtain greater long-term debt. In contrast, we demonstrate that obtaining political affiliation allows firms greater access to long-term debt.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/etap.12051
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Economics, Finance & Entrepreneurship
College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School
Additional Information: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Du, J., Guariglia, A., & Newman, A. (2015). Do social capital building strategies influence the financing behavior of Chinese private small and medium-sized enterprises?. Entrepreneurship theory and practice, 39(3), 601-631, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/etap.12051]. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Business and International Management,Economics and Econometrics
Publication ISSN: 1540-6520
Last Modified: 07 Mar 2024 18:50
Date Deposited: 23 Jul 2013 08:06
Full Text Link: http://onlineli ... .12051/abstract
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2015-05
Published Online Date: 2013-07-07
Authors: Du, Jun (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-0449-4437)
Guariglia, Alessandra
Newman, Alexander

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