Title: What are the characteristics of a survivor? Evidence from bankruptcy analysis of newly formed Japanese SMEs

Authors: Hong Xu

Addresses: Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan

Abstract: We analyse the bankruptcy of newly created Japanese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from 2003 to 2011 by comparing various features with newly formed but surviving companies during the same period. First, we root our study in Penrose's resource-based firm theory and Barney's sustained competitive advantage framework and follow prior SME research results (mainly Storey's small business) to identify the features of bankrupted SMEs in Japan. Then, we use t-tests and logistic regression to verify the validity of these identified features. Finally, we use the verified features to build prediction models using machine learning techniques and test the prediction effects.

Keywords: small and medium-sized enterprises; SMEs; bankruptcy; newly formed firms; resource-based view theory; resource-based view; RBV; sustained competitive advantage framework; entrepreneur experience; machine learning; Japan.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESB.2024.135705

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2024 Vol.51 No.2, pp.161 - 190

Received: 25 Dec 2020
Accepted: 06 Jan 2021
Published online: 03 Jan 2024 *

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