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Este trabajo analiza la evolución en el tiempo de los estudios sobre fracaso empresarial. Con carácter general, partimos de la revisión crítica realizada en la literatura previa, y aportamos un análisis de la evidencia empírica adicional, con especial atención a la obtenida durante la última década. Pero además, para subsanar algunas deficiencias detectadas en las revisiones anteriores, nos ocupamos de tres aspectos, que pueden considerarse la principal contribución de este trabajo: primero, analizamos la evolución en las últimas décadas del concepto de fracaso empresarial o fallido, detectando cierta evolución desde la identificación hacia la predicción; segundo, analizamos las variables empleadas en los modelos, aportando un estudio de los rasgos empresariales que se representan con las variables (frente al tradicional análisis de frecuencia de las propias variables individuales), siendo los resultados más acordes con los planteamientos y desarrollos teóricos clásicos sobre el fracaso empresarial; y, finalmente, destacamos los puntos fuertes y débiles de las metodologías que, por su reciente aparición, no habían sido analizadas o muy poco por revisiones anteriores: las técnicas de inteligencia artificial y el análisis envolvente de datos (DEA). Adicionalmente, integramos en la revisión el numeroso grupo de trabajos empíricos publicados en España sobre la cuestión, y que no aparecían en ninguna de las revisiones previas analizadas.
Palabras clave:
fracaso empresarial
quiebra
análisis de variables
ratios financieros
Clasificación JEL:
G33
L25
M41
Abstract
This work analyzes the evolution of business failure literature. In it, we consider previous critical revisions, contributing with the analysis of additional empirical evidence, paying special attention to the last decade. In order to make up for some deficiencies detected in previous revisions, we deal with three aspects that can be considered the main contribution of this work. First, we analyze the business failure concept during the last decades, detecting, from identification to prediction, certain evolution. Second, we analyze the variables used in the different models, adding –to the traditional frequency analysis of the individual variables– a study of the business features proxied by the variables, obtaining rankings more in line with the classical theoretical approaches and developments on business failure. Finally, we illustrate the salient strengths and weaknesses of the recently, and scarcely analyzed methodologies, such as artificial intelligence techniques and data envelopment analyses (DEA). In addition, we incorporate a large group of empirical works on this matter published in Spain, missing in the previous revision works examined.
Keywords:
business failure
bankruptcy
variable analysis
financial ratios
JEL Classification:
G33
L25
M41
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Los autores desean agradecer los comentarios y sugerencias aportados por los dos evaluadores anónimos y el editor asociado de RC-SAR, así como los recibidos de los participantes en el XV Congreso AECA, donde se presentó una versión previa del documento. El trabajo se ha beneficiado del apoyo financiero prestado por la Universidad de León (Proyecto de investigación ULE-2010-9).
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