Small-scale industries have been playing a momentous role in overall economic development of a country like India where millions of people are unemployed or underemployed. Poverty and unemployment are two of the burning problems of the country today. This sector solves these two problems through...

The literature on group entrepreneurship suggests remarkable departure from the classical concept of entrepreneurship. Unlike classical business entrepreneurship which is rare in any economy, the term group entrepreneurship has been coined to describe the process of escorting a group of people...

The study analyzed the financial performance of selected micro, small, and medium enterprises using secondary data from financial statements for the past three years. Results showed the enterprises performed favorably in liquidity, activity and leverage but suffered from a low-level...

Entrepreneurship generally speaking refers to the overall course of action undertaken by an owner in starting and managing his enterprise for profit. Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector has emerged as a highly vibrant and dynamic sector of the Indian economy over the last five...

Although some work has been done at the national level little is known about the status of technology adoption by SMEs at the local level [2, 4, 13]. Accordingly, the intent of the research here is to investigate the current state of technology adoption by high-tech manufacturing SMEs in the...

This paper evaluates the effects of a voluntary registration policy with government authorities on financial performance of urban microenterprises in the Indian manufacturing sector. Using data from the 2006 World Bank survey of Indian microenterprises and applying the semi-parametric propensity...

We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward" districts, on the performance of microenterprises. "Backward" districts were selected based on a transparent score-based assignment mechanism. Using a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity...