05600nam a22006135i 4500 978-3-031-74193-7 DE-He213 20251030113308.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241112s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031741937 978-3-031-74193-7 10.1007/978-3-031-74193-7 doi HG4523 KFF bicssc BUS027000 bisacsh KFF thema Aliano, Mauro. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 87374 Sustainable Finance for SMEs [electronic resource] : The Role of Capital for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth / by Mauro Aliano, Greta Cestari, Salvatore Madonna. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XXIII, 210 p. 9 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Sustainable Finance, 2522-8293 Part I: Mechanisms and Institutions -- Chapter 1. Sustainable Supply Chain Finance: Bridging Theory and Practice -- Chapter 2. How Can Companies Financially Sustain Their Transition? -- Chapter 3. Integrating ESG Risk into the Banking Prudential Framework in EU: the Impact on SMEs -- Chapter 4. Sustainability and Market Efficiency for SMEs: Bubble or Opportunity? -- Part II: Instruments and Methods -- Chapter 5. Financial Instruments for Green Finance Tailored to SMEs -- Chapter 6. Initial Coin Offering as a Possible Way to Obtain Financial Resources -- Chapter 7. Greenwashing -- Chapter 8. Italian SMEs' Sustainability Scores -- Part III: Companies Crisis -- Chapter 9. Business Crisis and Bankruptcy Prediction Models: The Other Side of Sustainability -- Chapter 10. Bankruptcy Prediction Models: From Predictive Performance to Economic and Organizational Sustainability. One of the greatest challenges facing humanity is to achieve sustainable and inclusive growth. In addition to public and state financial resources, policymakers leverage private companies to promote sustainable growth through green investments and innovations, encouraging private initiatives and financial activities. In this context, SMEs play a crucial role not only at the European level but also as economic actors implementing and pursuing policy goals. This book focuses on the capital and financial aspects of SME activities for sustainable and inclusive growth, aiming to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of the art. Starting from a business economics perspective, the book discusses financial instruments for both the short and long term. Supply Chain Finance (SCF) offers a theoretical framework for short-term instruments, improving overall supply chain sustainability through companies’ choices of suppliers, buyers, customers, financial institutions, and technology providers. Innovations such as FinTechs and Blockchain can enhance the effectiveness of sustainable business and bring about substantial changes in relationships among different actors. With regard to long-term instruments like debt capital, the book analyzes the traditional banking channel along with the role of the financial market. Factors such as the impact of FinTechs and other innovations on market efficiency have the potential to change financing activities, making relationships more complex and binding. In this complex system, new laws and regulations can mean sudden changes in terms of providing loans. The banking sector is increasingly using CSR drivers to assess creditworthiness and integrating green lending into credit policy, in keeping with central bank decisions and international board standards. These rules supplement existing ones on prudential supervision, capital buffers, and the broader international regulatory framework for banks. Lastly, the book explores the potential impact of “greenwashing” on SMEs pursuing sustainable practices. To address this, it proposes an approach to measuring sustainability for Italian SMEs based on a survey of 2500 enterprises and provides Matlab tools for investigating green and other sustainable behaviors. Capital market. 59069 Business enterprises Finance. 58021 Financial engineering. 58071 New business enterprises Finance. 70074 Industrial management Environmental aspects. 68586 Capital Markets. 70943 Corporate Finance. 57278 Financial Technology and Innovation. 69289 Entrepreneurial Finance. 70075 Corporate Environmental Management. 68587 Cestari, Greta. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 87375 Madonna, Salvatore. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 87376 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031741920 Printed edition: 9783031741944 Printed edition: 9783031741951 Sustainable Finance, 2522-8293 70076 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74193-7 ZDB-2-ECF ZDB-2-SXEF 64887 64887