The Impact of Financial Leadership on the Success of SMEs in the Management of Crisis

In this paper we present the results of an empirical study about Financial Leadership. A questionnaire with 17 questions in 6 categories were de-veloped and sent to 4069 SMEs in the producing sector in Austria. The questionnaire was answered by 318 companies. With the data we wanted to find out if Financial Leadership can prevent companies from suffering a company-crisis or can help companies to overcome a company crisis.