RT Journal Article
T1 Analyzing the Effect of Financial  Constraints on Technological and  Management Innovation in SMEs:  A Gender Perspective.
A1 Ruiz-Palomo, Daniel
A1 Fernández-Gámez, Manuel Ángel
A1 León-Gómez, Ana María
K1 Empresas - Finanzas
K1 Pequeñas y medianas empresas - Innovaciones tecnológicas
K1 Empresarias
AB The aim of this research is twofold: establishing whether access to bank financing facilitates innovation in SMEs and whether such effect can be explained from a gender perspective. Using a sample of 310 Spanish SMEs, this study first examines the effect of alleviating financial constraints on both technological and management innovation through a structural equation model. Then, the moderating effect of gender is examined. Our results showed that (a) relaxing financial constraints helps SMEs to innovate in both technological and management innovation, (b) the effect of the relaxation of financial constraints is significantly greater in companies managed by women, and (c) the moderating effect of gender occurs from the double perspective of technological innovation and management innovation. Our empirical results suggest that the gender of the CEO plays a vital moderating role among innovation and financial constraints, providing new evidence about women’s contribution to innovation in SMEs, so these results have practical business and institutional implications as they point out the relevance to promote employment policies that favour the gender diversity of employees at all hierarchical levels of the company
PB SAGE
YR 2022
FD 2022-03-11
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/28057
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/28057
LA spa
NO Ruiz-Palomo, D., Fernández-Gámez, M. Á., & León-Gómez, A. (2022). Analyzing the effect of financial constraints on technological and management innovation in SMEs: a gender perspective. SAGE Open, 12(1), 21582440221079925. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440221079925.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026