Abstract Adopting comparative multiple-case study method, this study explored different effects of information acquisition, network structure and process control of three e-commerce companies and corresponding commercial banks on SMEs’ financing performance. Compared with the traditional bank lending, the study found that acquisition of transaction information and business credit, the closed loop business and relational embeddedness, and the combination of outcome control and behavioral control in SCF can better reduce the ex-ante and ex-post information asymmetry and financing cost, and thus improve SMEs’ access to financing and improving SMEs’ financing performance.
2017, Vol. 14 
