The focus of working capital management in UK small firms

By Carole Howorth, Paul Westhead. 2003

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• Working capital management and firm profitability (2013, background): “2012), but also expects that profitability influences working capital management (Baños-Caballero et al. 2010; Howorth and Westhead 2003).”
• The impact of cash conversion cycle on firm profitability: An empirical study based on Swedish data (2014, background): “Firm age has been regarded as an important variable explaining change in the working capital level and in profitability (Howorth and Westhead, 2003; Mathuva, 2010).”
• Access to finance, working capital management and company value: Evidences from Brazilian companies listed on BM&FBOVESPA (2014, methodology): “Moreover, the results are in line with researches (Deloof, 2003; Howorth & Westhead, 2003) that confirm that companies seek to maintain an optimal level of working capital in order to maximize their value.”
• Cash Conversion Cycle and Value-Enhancing Operations: Theory and Evidence for a Free Lunch (2017, background): “For small firms in the US, there is also evidence that firms with more efficient CCCs are more liquid, require less financing, and are more profitable, while the owners/managers of small firms may be reactive (Howorth and Westhead 2003; Ebben and Johnson 2011).”
• TRENDS IN WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT AND ITS IMPACT ON FIRMS, PERFORMANCE: AN ANALYSIS OF MAURITIAN SMALL MANUFACTURING FIRMS (2006, background): “The recent work of Howorth and Westhead (2003), suggest that small companies tend to focus on some areas of working capital management where they can expect to improve marginal returns.”
• RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EFFICIENCY LEVEL OF WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT AND RETURN ON TOTAL ASSETS IN ISE (ISTANBUL STOCK EXCHANGE) (2009, background): “In other words, efficient management of working capital is an important component of the general strategy aiming at increasing the market value (Howorth & Westhead, 2003; Deloof, 2003; Afza & Nazir, 2007).”
• Management control systems in innovation companies: a literature based framework (2014, background): “A measure could for example build on Howorth and Westhead (2003) by asking respondents for the extent of use of venture capital as a source of financing.”
• Working Capital Management, Firms- Performance and Market Valuation in Nigeria (2012, background): “An optimal working capital management is expected to contribute positively to the creation of firm value [8],[1] and [9].”
• Cash conversion cycle and corporate performance: Global evidence (2018, background): “Firms may have an optimal level of working capital that maximizes their value (Deloof, 2003; Howorth and Westhead, 2003).”
• Cash Conversion Cycle Management in Small Firms: Relationships with Liquidity, Invested Capital, and Firm Performance (2011, background): “Some limited evidence exists in the literature on working capital management to support this notion, with Howorth and Westhead (2003) finding that more profitable small firms were less likely to take up working capital management routines.”