This article explores how the institutional context, including central and local governments, has co-evolved with business in relation to small cars and sustainability. This is a very relevant issue for business and society in view of the environmental implications of the rapidly growing vehicle...

This study sets out to review in detail the available information on SMEs crisis management. Despite SMEs' crucial role in the economy, relatively little research has been carried out on the effects of the economic crisis on SMEs and how they can cope with a crisis. This work will generate fresh...

This paper empirically analyzes the productivity, profitability, innovation and network effects of a public policy promoting micro and small scale industrial clusters in Ethiopia. To this end, firm-level survey data was collected from randomly selected clustered leather shoe manufacturers that...

Marketing should be called as the competitive edge of every business. Marketing practices are differing from continent to continent, countries to countries, cities to cities and sector to sector in relation with social, cultural and economic backgrounds. The differentiation among space, time and...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of entrepreneurial marketing to innovation and its impact on marketing performance and financial performance of wearing apparel small industries in West Java, Indonesia. Total sample was 200 small industries, survey method is used and data...

This study aims to investigate the effect of entrepreneurial marketing dimensions, namely: proactiveness; calculated risk-taking; innovativeness; opportunity focus; resource leveraging; customer intensity; value creation and legitimacy, on business performance in garment small industry in...

There is little doubt that SMEs plays a vital role in development of an underdeveloped economy, but still this sector is facing multifarious problems relating to raw materials, power, land, marketing, transport, technical facilities, and finance etc and due to these constraints it is getting...

This paper aims to develop strategy and policy suggestions to increase the competitiveness of SMEs in the textile industry by analyzing the variables that affect competitiveness and contribute to competitiveness literature by adopting a holistic approach to the analysis of competitiveness...

Millions of Indian SMEs who depend for their growth on banks – the only source of credit at normal market price – are perennially remaining outside the ambit of any bank finance. The literature has long identified relationship lending (RL) as a suitable technology for lending to small firms....