SME'S performance and neural classification: An application on several sectors of activity

Muriel Perez (1)

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The neural applications in business finance are already numerous and related for the majority to the topic of the bankruptcy forecasting. Within the framework of classification problem we wish to widen this work with an analysis of financial performance of SME. The aim is to use here, the self-organizing maps of Kohonen as a traditional analysing tools of data and to study the company classes obtained while reasoning in term of performance.

Mots clés: Classification; Self-organizing maps of Kohonen; Financial performance; SME

Domaines: Gestion et management

Muriel Perez. SME'S performance and neural classification: An application on several sectors of activity. European Journal of Economic and Social Systems, 2004, 17 (1-2), pp.197-210. ⟨halshs-00522135⟩