Serious flaw in the sample design. The entire paper is framed around SMEs, yet the data in Table 2 clearly includes large firms (37.5% of the sample). This isn’t a minor oversight; it invalidates the core premise and all SME-specific conclusions. The title, abstract, and implications are fundamentally misleading. How can findings on “SME performance” be trusted when over a third of the data comes from large enterprises? This error demands a major correction.
