Industrial Clusters And Social Networks And Their Impact On The Performance Of Micro And Small Scale Enterprises

Author : Merima Abdella Ali
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789461731272
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Industrial Clusters and Social Networks and Their Impact on the Performance of Micro- and Small-scale Enterprises written by Merima Abdella Ali and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bahaaeddin Alareeni
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031269535
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821386286
Total Pages : 208 pages
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Download or read book Industrial Clusters and Micro and Small Enterprises in Africa written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Research Institute, and the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID), in collaboration with researchers affiliated with the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), recently conducted a study on Africa s domestic enterprises to improve the understanding of the constraints micro and small enterprises in Africa face in improving productivity and expanding their markets. In Africa, there are stark performance gaps between domestically owned enterprises and foreign-owned enterprises in terms of sales performance, productivity, and ability to reach distant markets. Among others, size appears to be a dominant factor in explaining the gap. Against this background, the study analyzes how naturally formed industrial clusters concentrations of enterprises engaged in same or closely related industrial activities in specific locations could potentially mitigate constraints Africa s micro and small enterprises face and enhance their business performance. The study is one of the first comprehensive quantitative inquiries on industrial clusters in Africa. The analysis specifically focuses on the role of spontaneously grown clusters of light manufacturing industries based on a set of original case studies of industrial clusters conducted for this research project. One of the key findings from the case studies was that cluster-based micro and small enterprises are performing better than similar micro and small enterprises outside of the clusters in terms of sales performance and ability to reach distant markets. Market access is a leading reason for cluster-based enterprises to choose their current locations. However, cluster-based enterprises face another set of unique growth constraints. By the very nature of spontaneous agglomera tion, new enterprises continue to flow to the clusters seeking the profit opportunities and better access to markets at such locations. The result can be intense competition in addition to increased congestion. Space constraints often impede growth within clusters. The lack of alternative locations available for industrial activities in the same cities, generic infrastructure bottlenecks, and unclear zoning policies and their unpredictable changes limit firms location choices and constrain their mobility. While competition should improve efficiency, lack of capacity among those competing cluster-based enterprises to invest and innovate does not generate growth out of the competition. The vast majority of naturally formed clusters of light manufacturing industries in Africa are still at a survival level, where agglomeration externalities are only limited to expand quantity but not quality as we observe in more advanced innovation-oriented clusters in elsewhere in the world. Existing studies on such natural industrial clusters in Africa have found that the lack of managerial skills among entrepreneurs running micro and small enterprises is a major constraint for innovation and growth in the clusters. As a part of this study, pilot managerial skills training programs were conducted in two industrial clusters on an experimental basis, where a group of randomly selected entrepreneurs within the clusters were given three-week long crush course of based management such as bookkeeping, marketing, business planning, and production management. The impact evaluation of the experiments showed significant positive impacts of the training programs on value added and gross profits of enterprises. Raising the current survival-type industrial clusters, which have been formed as a coping mechanism to weak investment climate, into more dynamic innovating clusters will be an important avenue for fostering growth of micro and small enterprises in Africa. While national efforts to improve investment climate and investments in human capital are undoubtedly important, there could be more targeted policies to be formulated, in complementing general policies, to support growth of micro and small domestic enterprises using existing industrial clusters as a natural springboard for their growth. In that context, the study discusses the merit of cluster-based managerial human capital development to build steps toward more innovation-oriented clusters, the importance of sound spatial planning policy, particularly at the local level in the context of urban planning, the need to expand market access and economic linkages for industrial clusters including regional integration and linkages with large enterprises.

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Publisher : TRIDEV
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clustering of micro industry through private initiative written by and published by TRIDEV. This book was released on with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first stage of the book - explain the various element that effect in the growth of micro industry and in the second stage -clustering model have been shown. In the second stage the reader can understand why the private entrepreneurs took the initiative to cluster the micro industry. The book explain – how the private entrepreneurs independently run their business for growth of each other business and for whole economy of a country without intervention of the government.

Author : Qalati, Sikandar Ali
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1668457717
Total Pages : 307 pages
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Author : Leona Achtenhagen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811045364
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management Challenges in Different Types of African Firms written by Leona Achtenhagen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on management challenges in different types of companies, ranging from small to large, from private to public and from service to manufacturing in the African context. With empirical data from countries as diverse as Rwanda, Kenya and Ethiopia, it discusses the increasing economic importance of the African continent, covering relevant topics on sustainability and environmental issues, exports, logistics, HR issues, innovation and financial reporting. Through different conceptual insights and empirical case studies, the research presented serves as a useful resource for academics, students, and policy-makers interested in in-depth studies on management challenges in Africa.

Author : Monica Thiel
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832500137
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Author : Carvalho, Luísa
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466695684
Total Pages : 878 pages
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Author : Francesco Capone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317486234
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourist Clusters, Destinations and Competitiveness written by Francesco Capone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism has become one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world economy. Increasingly, research on tourism destinations has been at the centre of debates concerning destination competitiveness, governance, policies and destination management and marketing. This book investigates tourist destinations from two different perspectives. First, it approaches destinations using the concept of tourist clusters and investigates their role in competitiveness and firm performances. The second perspective studies the development of models of competitiveness and governance. It also develops an international benchmarking system of 15-EU countries, with an additional focus on Italy, UK and United States. The book will appeal to academics, scholars and practitioners in tourism studies, management, urban and regional studies and economic geography, etc.

Author : Arief Hoetoro
Publisher : Universitas Brawijaya Press
ISBN 13 : 6022033179
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Industrial Cluster in Indonesia: Cooperation and Competition written by Arief Hoetoro and published by Universitas Brawijaya Press. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Programs to improve the performance of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) through clustering is now becoming the design of industrial and innovation policies which is implemented by policy makers in Indonesia. There has been a common perception that clusters are able to encourage entrepreneurship, learning, and productivity improvements for MSEs more effectively. This common perception, however, should be further explored whether clustered MSEs successfully obtain "collective efficiency" from clusters or they even suffer from "collective failure". This book is an attempt to reveal such issues of MSEs clustering by presenting a case study on small industrial clusters in Central Java which is well known as the "heartland" of MSEs operate in clusters. While supporting programs are persistently introduced to such clusters, in fact, to obtain "the collective efficiency of clustering" is not so easy. Unfair competition accompanied by ineffective cooperation might be factors that cause to clustered MSEs failed to gain the benefit of clustering.