TY - JOUR
TI - Relational capital and economic results of the SME sector in Poland
AU - Czuba, Tomasz
AU - Szczepaniec, Marek
AU - Jurkiewicz, Tomasz
TI - Relational capital and economic results of the SME sector in Poland
AB - SMEs have a dominant role in the Polish economy. The SME sector employs 6.6 million people representing 70% of the people working in the corporate sector in Poland. The purpose of this article is to present the problems of SMEs in building relationships with various market participants and in particular the impact of the quantity and quality of the relationship on the economic performance of the SME sector. The study was conducted in 2009 on a random sample of 1,346 small and medium-sized enterprises all over Poland. Descriptive statistics showed that mostly the positive development of economic indicators recorded the busineses with more and higher quality relationships with the business environment. Negative economic indicators of change, in turn, frequently showed businesses with very low rates of relational capital.
VL - 2012
IS - Volume 31(2)
PY - 2012
SN - 2300-6102
C1 - 2353-9496
SP - 194
EP - 211
DO - 10.4467/23539496IB.12.010.2635
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/ibage/article/kapital-relacyjny-a-wyniki-ekonomiczne-malych-i-srednich-firm-w-polsce
KW - SME
KW - relational capital
KW - economic indicators
KW - SME relationships