The purpose of this paper is to identify the critical determinants of Bangladeshi small and medium-sized enterprises’ intention to continue their business. 1724 business owners participated as respondents in this survey. Using logistic regression, our results suggest that continuance intention is affected positively by innovation, informality, risk attitude, and debt. On the other hand, the age of the business owner and the size of firm do not play any significant role in this intention. The probability of continuance in the presence of each of these factors is also calculated in Manufacturing, Service, and Trade sectors separately. Understanding the influential determinants of continuance intention of business owners would help the policy makers to devise appropriate policies from a better insight to support the industry in different sectors.

本文的目的是确定孟加拉国中小企业继续开展业务的意图的关键决定因素。1724位企业主作为被调查者参加了此次调查。使用逻辑回归，我们的研究结果表明，创新，非正式性，风险态度和债务对持续意愿有积极影响。另一方面，企业主的年龄和公司规模在此意图中没有任何重要作用。在制造，服务和贸易部门分别计算存在这些因素时的持续概率。了解企业主的持续意愿的决定性因素将有助于决策者从更深入的洞察中制定适当的政策，以支持不同行业的行业。