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Unleashing the growth potential of Indian MSME sector
Sumanjeet Singh; Paliwal, Minakshi - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 20 (2017) 2, pp. 35-52
The MSME sector occupies a position of strategic significance in the Indian economic structure. This sector contributes nearly eight per cent to country's GDP, employing over 80 million people in nearly 36 million widely-dispersed enterprises across the country; accounting for 45 per cent of...
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The impact of management practices on SME performance
Forth, John; Bryson, Alex - 2018
We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011 …-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official … returns are most apparent for those SMEs that invest in human resource management practices, such as training and performance …
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Risk attitudes and profits among small enterprises in Nigeria
Lammers, Judith; Willebrands, Daan; Hartog, Joop - 2010
This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being...
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A general framework to evaluate economic efficiency with an application to British SME
Pru°ša, Jan - 2009
This article formalises the idea of money-metric production frontiers, which we propose as a general framework for nonparametric evaluation of economic efficiency. As we show in our methodological discussion, this improves the flexibility and economic interpretation of our model. The empirical...
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The role of training in fostering cluster-based micro and small enterprises development
Sonobe, Tetsushi; Ōtsuka, Keijirō - 2012
While it has been increasingly recognized that efficient management holds the key to the development of micro and small enterprises in developing countries, we know very little about the managerial capacity of business owners and managers in these countries. In order to explore whether we can...
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Job creation by firms in Denmark
Ibsen, Rikke; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels C. - 2011
In this paper we will look at job creation and destruction in firms. We will answer the question if it is the large companies that create jobs, while the smaller companies are contributing much less. Or is it the young companies that create jobs? And who destroys the most jobs? In the crisis...
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Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen der Informations- und Kommunikationswirtschaft in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Maaß, Frank; Schröder, Christian; Wolter, Hans-Jürgen - 2013
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht den IKT-Sektor in Nordrhein-Westfalen anhand von Sonderauswertungen der amtlichen Statistik des Umsatzsteuerpanels sowie der Daten einer eigenen Unternehmensbefragung. Dabei erweist sich dieses Bundesland als Standort mit einem weitgehend prosperierenden...
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The growth and decline of small firms in developing countries
Coad, Alexander; Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - 2008
Empirical work on micro and small firms has focused on developed countries. The little work that exists on developing countries is all too often based on small samples taken from ad hoc questionnaires. The census data we analyze are fairly representative of the structure of small business in...
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Importance of technological innovation for SME growth : evidence from India
Hillemane, Bala Subrahmanya Mungila; Mathirajan, M.; … - 2010
This paper probes the drivers, dimensions, achievements, and outcomes of technological innovations carried out by SMEs in the auto components, electronics, and machine tool sectors of Bangalore in India. Further, it ascertains the growth rates of innovative SMEs vis-à-vis non-innovative SMEs in...
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Credit Supply Shocks and Firm Dynamics : Evidence from Brazil
Bazzi, Samuel; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Oliveira, Raquel F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We explore how financial constraints distort the entry decisions among otherwise productive entrepreneurs and limit growth of promising young firms. A model of liquidity-constrained entrepreneurs suggests that the easing of credit constraints can induce more entry of firms with greater long-run...
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