Bank Financing, Government Support, and SME Performance: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneur Competence
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Abstract
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) must improve their performance to remain competitive in an unstable market, especially during the digital era and the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.This study investigates the influence of bank financing and government support on SME performance, with entrepreneur competence as a mediator.Data were collected from a sample of SMEs through questionnaires distributed to 115 owners and interviews with SME stakeholders.The data were analyzed using factor analysis and principal component analysis, followed by structural equation modeling (SEM) and the Partial Least Square (PLS) program.The results show that bank financing and government support do not directly affect SME performance, but entrepreneur competence mediates the relationship.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it