How to improve the financing availability of transport SMEs? A survey based on supply chain relationship-logistics capability-information traceability1

IF 4.4 2区工程技术 Q2 BUSINESS

Research in Transportation Business and Management Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI:10.1016/j.rtbm.2025.101421

Xiaomin Zhao, Lujingyi Zhang

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Abstract

Affected by the global economic slowdown and rising costs, many small and medium-sized enterprises(SMEs) in the transportation sector have encountered financial difficulties in recent years. Based on signaling theory, this paper mainly explores the impact of hard information and soft information on the financing availability of transport SMEs. The former is measured by business performance such as profits, market share, and revenue growth, while the latter is measured by supply chain relationship(SCR), logistics capability(LC) and information traceability(ITA). The results show that SCR, LC and ITA positively impact the financing availability of transport SMEs, while business performance plays a mediating role between SCR, LC, ITA and financing availability. In addition, the study demonstrates that environmental dynamics positively moderate the impact of logistics capability on financing availability. This finding suggests that high-level logistics capability is crucial for transport SMEs to stand out in financing, when they face external environmental turbulence and financial difficulties.

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如何改善运输中小企业的融资可得性？基于供应链关系-物流能力-信息可追溯性的研究

近年来，受全球经济放缓和成本上升的影响，许多交通运输行业的中小企业都遇到了资金困难。基于信号理论，本文主要探讨了硬信息和软信息对交通运输中小企业融资可得性的影响。前者通过利润、市场份额、收入增长等企业绩效来衡量，后者通过供应链关系（supply chain relationship， SCR）、物流能力（logistics capability， LC）和信息可追溯性（information traceability， ITA）来衡量。结果表明，SCR、LC和ITA正向影响运输中小企业融资可获得性，而经营绩效在SCR、LC和ITA与融资可获得性之间起中介作用。此外，研究表明，环境动态正向调节物流能力对融资可得性的影响。这一发现表明，当运输中小企业面临外部环境动荡和融资困难时，高水平的物流能力对其在融资中脱颖而出至关重要。

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175

期刊介绍： Research in Transportation Business & Management (RTBM) will publish research on international aspects of transport management such as business strategy, communication, sustainability, finance, human resource management, law, logistics, marketing, franchising, privatisation and commercialisation. Research in Transportation Business & Management welcomes proposals for themed volumes from scholars in management, in relation to all modes of transport. Issues should be cross-disciplinary for one mode or single-disciplinary for all modes. We are keen to receive proposals that combine and integrate theories and concepts that are taken from or can be traced to origins in different disciplines or lessons learned from different modes and approaches to the topic. By facilitating the development of interdisciplinary or intermodal concepts, theories and ideas, and by synthesizing these for the journal''s audience, we seek to contribute to both scholarly advancement of knowledge and the state of managerial practice. Potential volume themes include: -Sustainability and Transportation Management- Transport Management and the Reduction of Transport''s Carbon Footprint- Marketing Transport/Branding Transportation- Benchmarking, Performance Measurement and Best Practices in Transport Operations- Franchising, Concessions and Alternate Governance Mechanisms for Transport Organisations- Logistics and the Integration of Transportation into Freight Supply Chains- Risk Management (or Asset Management or Transportation Finance or ...): Lessons from Multiple Modes- Engaging the Stakeholder in Transportation Governance- Reliability in the Freight Sector