http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/10860 2026-05-15T14:22:49Z 2026-05-15T14:22:49Z Kumar, Sumit http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12734 2021-04-18T05:56:47Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Intellectual Capital, Firm Capabilities and Performance of Small Medium Enterprises in India Kumar, Sumit All over the world, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are the economic and employment backbone of thriving and developing economies. They are widely considered as the primary sources of entrepreneurship and crucibles of innovation. A significant contribution to the country's economy comes from value-addition, an activity SMEs excel in. Apart from agriculture, almost the entire employment generation is in the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) sector, with 40 per cent being accounted for by SMEs. Therefore, SMEs should be contemplated as a measure of a country's growth potential, and their real impact must be determined not just from their turnover but from the people touched by them.

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Paray, Zahoor Ahmad http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12550 2021-09-29T11:15:29Z 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z

Micro-enterprise Growth Determinants: A Framework Study and Analysis Paray, Zahoor Ahmad Firm growth, a foundational topic of management research (Greve 2008; Nason, 2014; Bird and Zellweger, 2018), is broadly defined as the increase in a firm’s size from one point in time to another (Penrose, 1959; Chandler, 1962). Broad array of theories with fragmentation prevented comprehensive knowledge accumulation and theoretical development in this field (Nason, Brinckmann and Wiklund, 2012; Hewitt-dundas, 2017). Beyond the start-up and survival phases of the life of an enterprise, lies the potential for enterprise growth. The existing literature is highly fragmented as studies from psychology field focus on behaviour of the entrepreneurs (Begley and Boyd, 1987; Dana, 2017; Isaga, 2018), strategic research concentrates on the relationship between environment, business strategy and growth (McDougall et al., 1992; Fellnhofer, 2017; Reutzel et al., 2018). Economics researchers focus on the relation between growth and firm size (Audretsch et al., 2004; Serrasqueiro, et al., 2018). It leads us to conclude that there is no holistic view of it and all fields have grown in their own style.

2020-06-01T00:00:00Z Sharma, Neha http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/11670 2020-09-08T06:00:34Z 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z

The role of Entrepreneur, Enterprise and External Environment in the Growth of the Sustained Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Sharma, Neha Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in India have proven, beyond doubt that they contribute significantly to the country’s industrial and economic growth (Kumar, 2017). India is one of the fastest growing economies of the world, in the last few years, the economic growth has steadily accelerated and most importantly, remained very stable (As per IMF report, 2019). Since the start of the 21st century, annual average GDP growth has been 6% to 7%, and from 2014 to 2018, India was the world's fastest growing major economy, surpassing China (Kanungo et al., 2018). One of the major factors that is being touted as the backbone of India’s economy is the SME sector. Whether it is agriculture, manufacturing or service industry, SMEs are mushrooming in a myriad of sectors across the country. However, in spite of their contribution to the socio-economic growth of India, SMEs face a number of challenges such as lack of capital due to inadequate access to finance and credit, inability to attract talented and tech-savvy manpower, poor infrastructure and utilities resulting in low production capacity, lack of innovation, technology and digital knowledge gap, lack of marketing know-how and so on. Due to these challenges, the Indian SMEs are unable to sustain and scale to their full potential and become sustainable. It has been acknowledged that the inability of SMEs to remain in business with high failure rate (Franco and Haase, 2010) has attracted a lot of interest, to study the factors that may lead to sustainable growth of SMEs in developing countries (Asa and Prasad, 2014).

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