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Main challenges for portuguese smes in accessing finance for sustainability

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Resumo:Access to financing for sustainability is commonly mentioned as one of the main challenges for SMEs in becoming more sustainable. This work focuses on Portuguese SMEs and explores the importance they attribute to finance as a lever to improve their sustainability, as well as the main challenges faced by them in accessing sustainable finance. 20 challenges possibly conditioning Portuguese SMEs’ access to sustainable finance were identified and categorized. A survey among 563 Portuguese SMEs substantiates the existence of most of these challenges but suggests the existence of levers to improve SMEs’ sustainability more important than access to finance for sustainability.
Autores principais:Pereira, Pedro Guilherme Ferreira Alves Lajas
Assunto:Sustainability Small And Medium Sized Enterprises Sustainable Finance CEMS MIM
Ano:2022
País:Portugal
Tipo de documento:dissertação de mestrado
Tipo de acesso:acesso embargado
Instituição associada:Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Idioma:inglês
Origem:Repositório Institucional da UNL
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Resumo:Access to financing for sustainability is commonly mentioned as one of the main challenges for SMEs in becoming more sustainable. This work focuses on Portuguese SMEs and explores the importance they attribute to finance as a lever to improve their sustainability, as well as the main challenges faced by them in accessing sustainable finance. 20 challenges possibly conditioning Portuguese SMEs’ access to sustainable finance were identified and categorized. A survey among 563 Portuguese SMEs substantiates the existence of most of these challenges but suggests the existence of levers to improve SMEs’ sustainability more important than access to finance for sustainability.