Survival and Growth Strategies for Small- and Medium-Scale Enterprises in India: A Key for Sustainable Development

2013 ◽  
pp. 163-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravindra Tripathi ◽  
Rajesh Kumar Shastri ◽  
Sweta Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Medium Scale ◽  
Survival And Growth

THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF CHINESE FAMILY BUSINESSES IN SINGAPORE

1999 ◽  
Vol 07 (02) ◽  
pp. 197-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
WEE-LIANG TAN ◽  
D. G. ALLAMPALLI
Keyword(s):  
Family Member ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Firm Characteristics ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Professional Managers ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Survival And Growth

It has become common advice furnished to family businesses that in order for them grow and further develop, they need to professionalise their management. The literature suggests that firms that follow this advice will perform better and show higher survival and growth. This paper presents the findings of a study on the professionalisation of family businesses in Singapore. It examined whether family businesses that have professionalised their management differ from these that have not. It is anticipated that the professionalised Chinese family businesses would benefit from the introduction of professional managers. It was anticipated that they would be older in age (since succesion is not confined to family member), report better business performance, and adopt aggressive growth strategies. Firm differences were studies using three dimensions: firm characteristics like age and size when professionalised; performance differences using growth and business volume measures developed by Chandler and Hanks (1993) and growth strategies using the Miles and Stones typology (1978) of growth oriented firms. The study found that the professionalised family businesses did not differ in age but showed significant difference in size, better performance and aggressive growth strategies from those that were not.

The Role of the Consultant in Enterprise Development

2013 ◽  
pp. 88-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian K. Bathgate
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Business Failure ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Strategic Options ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Embedded Case Study

Business failure crisis is not a new phenomenon. The competitive dynamism to which businesses are susceptible exposes free economic agents to the vagaries of the marketplace, encompassing problems of growth, sustainability, and paradoxically, failure. However, the problems are more exacerbated in small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) than large businesses, which is why they have continued to experience disproportionately high failure rates. Set against this background, this chapter focuses on the role of early consultancy intervention in securing sustainable development of SMEs. It does this by analysing SME growth strategies with respect to the interface with consultants. Using the ‘embedded case study’ approach and leaning significantly on the author’s consultancy undertakings with SMEs in the UK, the chapter provides refreshing perspectives on the nature of consultancy, strategic options open to SMEs, entrepreneurial competences and characteristics, the need for consultants, and an assessment of role effectiveness in the SME sector.

scholarly journals SOCIOTECHNICAL INNOVATIONS OF SHORT FOOD SYSTEMS CASE STUDY OF THE CITY REGION ILE DE FRANCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 2149-2156
Author(s):  
H. Serhan ◽  
G. Yannou-LeBris
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
City Region ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Regional Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecological Transition ◽  
The City

AbstractThis paper relies on four case studies designed as short food systems aimed at coupling production, distribution, and consumption to contribute to the ecological transition of the City-Region Île-de-France. Through documentary research and interviews, we explore the growth strategies and sociotechnical innovations these short food systems implemented, and the links that can be established between these innovations, localism strategies, and the regional sustainable development.

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