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Does spatial location affect business liquidations? (2022)
Journal Article
MAKROPOULOS, A., WEIR, C. and ZHANG, X. 2022. Does spatial location affect business liquidations? International journal of computational economics and econometrics [online], 12(1-2): spatial analysis and interaction in economics and econometrics; data and modelling for sustainable spatial systems, pages 139-157. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCEE.2022.120503

Current studies in aggregate business liquidations have paid little attention to the potential importance of firms geographical (spatial) location. There is some evidence of spatial concentration of economic activity in certain geographical across Eu... Read More about Does spatial location affect business liquidations?.

An analysis of the determinants of failure processes in UK SMEs. (2020)
Journal Article
MAKROPOULOS, A., WEIR, C. and ZHANG, X. 2020. An analysis of the determinants of failure processes in UK SMEs. Journal of small business and enterprise development [online], 27(3), pages 405-426. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/JSBED-07-2019-0223

Purpose: This paper has two purposes. First, it evaluates the extent to which different failure processes are present in failed UK SMEs, by considering non-financial metrics including director characteristics, in addition to the financial ones. Secon... Read More about An analysis of the determinants of failure processes in UK SMEs..