http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/336 2026-05-15T15:01:11Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/356 Special Economic Zone (SEZ) & Institutional Building for Entrepreneurship Vellala, Paramasivan S Encouraged by the phenomenal success of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the People's Republic of China which first used this model to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Technological Transfers and Managerial Expertise, developing countries such as India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, North Korea, South Korea, Philippines, Russia etc uses SEZ driven economic growth to accelerate the rate of GDP in their respective countries. SEZs are specially designated geographical areas within the country that possess special economic regulations which normally incorporate calibrated fiscal and monetary policy mix of liberalized trade regime like decontrol, delicense and deregulations that attract huge investment from domestic as well as FDI to take advantage of the favourable trade policies. These policies are normally announced by the government in the EXIM (Export Import) and Foreign Trade Policies periodically to boost the investment of the nation. These SEZs contain special measures that are conducive to FDI and the units operating in the SEZ get tax incentive and the opportunity to pay lower tariffs. The ultimate goal of forming SEZ is to incorporate vibrant institutional building to accelerate economic activities through pro entrepreneurial policies. A single SEZ can contain multiple Free Trade Zones (FTZ), Export Processing Zone (EPZ), Free Zones (FZ), industrial Estates (IE), Free Ports and urban Enterprise Zones etc. SEZs are normally implemented through a variety of institutional structures like fully public, fully private and on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) models. This paper will make an empirical analysis of SEZ to understand the economies of scale in SEZ and the institutional building for entrepreneurship that can accelerate economic growth of a nation 2011-02-16T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/355 Indian Jute Industry: Its Crises - Need for Entrepreneurial Interventions Rahman, Manish Ur; Sarkar, Debasish; Sarkar, Anirban; Paul, Sourav; Chakrabarti, Jana; Singh, Bikram India is the largest producer of raw jute in the world. But the past glory of the Indian jute industry has faded out and it is suffering from stagnancy in recent times. An attempt has been made in this paper to find out the reasons behind the present stagnancy through a detailed observation of the existing market trend and the production cum marketing chain of raw jute. The problems of this labour-intensive agro-based industry have been identified through a field work carried out all over the jute producing districts of West Bengal. We found that the industry is run entirely on indigenous and traditional technological knowhow. Further it is suffering from an utter imperfectness as far as the cumbersome production cum marketing chain is concerned. This ultimately shoots up the cost of raw jute, making the industry less competitive in the national and international market. We conclude that the industry is in a desperate need of entrepreneurial interventions for modern technological and marketing innovativeness at various levels to strategize a whole new alternative approach. This would streamline the raw jute production cum marketing based on cost and time effective measures. Finally a model of a 'Central Jute Hub' has been conceptualized which would possibly become the nerve center of future raw jute production in India. 2011-02-16T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/354 From Macro-Level Spillovers to Micro-Level Dynamic Capabilities: A Knowledge-Based Model to Explain New Ventures' Internationalization García Cabrera, Antonia Mercedes; García-Soto, María Gracia; Suárez-Ortega, Sonia María; Olivares-Mesa, Arístides This paper explores the following relevant question: what are the environmental and internal knowledge-based factors that influence the propensity of new ventures to launch international expansion at or near their inception? Hence, this study contributes to the literature on born-global firms by introducing a multilevel approach that encompasses the internal dynamic capabilities and the external environmental conditions of the new venture within the entrepreneurship research field. We empirically test the effect of these potential determinants on the adoption of a born-global strategy by comparing this type of strategy with two other strategic options: international entrepreneurial firms that adopt a slower pace of internationalization and the decision to focus in the domestic market. Therefore, we act in response to the lack of integrative models and empirical research in this domain and extend the existing knowledge on international new ventures. The literature on knowledge based view and born global was used as a basis for drawing up the hypotheses, which were tested with data from 242 Spanish manufacturing SMEs representing manufacturing industries of a diverse technological content. Our results show that entrepreneurial spillovers and export spillovers of the firms' region of origin, as well as several dynamic capabilities are determinants of the adoption of a fast and committed internationalization. 2011-02-16T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/353 Family Business in India: Survival for Three generations or Beyond Khanka, S S Historically, family as a social institution has been one of the oldest surviving business units in India, as anywhere else, constituting above 75% in terms of ownership. Most of the researches in family business are limited to western economies. However, the research interest in family business is recent and stray outputs have started appearing in developing countries or Asia in general. Whatsoever research has so far been conducted in family business in India is scattered and our knowledge about the subject has been far from satisfactory. No comprehensive picture is still clear on most aspects of family business. As such, currency is generally given to assumptions and general predilections family business in the country. One of the general assumptions held is the most of the family businesses in India survive for three generations and only a few go beyond thus, supporting the age-old saying, "shirt sleeve to shirt sleeve in three generations." It is in this context that the present paper makes a modest attempt to examine the survival issue of family business in India. The main foci of paper will be to examine the reality or myth about survival of family business in India up to three generations or beyond. Accordingly, the paper has been presented in two parts. Part I gives the theoretical perspective of family business in India and part II presents the empirical evidences based on some case studies on family business in India. 2011-02-16T00:00:00Z