Assessing the mechanism of barriers towards green finance and public spending in small and medium enterprises from developed countries

Chien, Fengsheng and Ngo, Quang-Thanh and Hsu, Ching-Chi and Chau, Ka Yin and Iram, Robina (2021): Assessing the mechanism of barriers towards green finance and public spending in small and medium enterprises from developed countries. Published in:

Abstract

Due to their different abilities to improve financial growth and improve social development, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have been referred to as the economy’s backbone. Small- and medium-sized enterprises are crucial for both high- and low-income nations’ financial development. Customers grow more conscious of their purchase choices, preferences, and environmental consequences. The financial opportunities for SMEs in the United Arab Emirates to use green innovation methods to address potential obstacles for increasing green goods, processes, and management are examined in this paper; as a result, it is critical to reduce clean technology adoption constraints in small- and medium-sized businesses. To identify significant hurdles, sub-barriers, and ways to overcome impediments to green innovation in the United Arab Emirates, we apply an integrated decision process. Following a detailed literature analysis and the assistance of twelve experts, six primary obstacles, twenty-five sub-obstacles, and strategies to reduce the barriers were identified. Primary and sub-barriers were assessed using the FAHP. The (FTOPSIS) approach was used to rank the strategies. Five SMEs in the United Arab Emirates are putting the suggested integrated decision model to the test. “Financial investment levels 0.646 to 11 percent growth level,” according to the FAHP, are the most significant hurdles to SMEs adopting green practices. This research demonstrated a considerable beneficial association between SMEs and financial development and funding in the United Arab Emirates. According to this study, using research methodologies to provide green innovation in SMEs is the best strategy to overcome green innovation and adoption hurdles in small and medium firms and increasing their economics.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: SMEs; Barriers; Green innovation; Financial; FAHP; Financial development; United Arab Emirates
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E0 - General

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