There has been a substantial debate about the benefits rationalisation might have conferred on British manufacturing during the interwar years. One industry which has featured prominently is the Lancashire cotton-textile industry. This article assesses the validity of John Maynard Keynes' claim...

(2011) study has been replicated to find the effects of marketing practices on the firm performances of textiles industry in the boundaries of Pakistan. 156 questionnaires analyze from the cities of Faisalabad, Islamabad/Pindi, Karachi, Lahore and Multan. Finding suggested that vague marketing...

Current efforts to explain the implications of China’s growing economic attractiveness for development in other regions provide a framework that distinguishes between complimentary and competitive impact. From the perspective of competitive impact analysis its direct trade related...

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...