IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/wremsd/v6y2010i1-2p50-70.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Development of SMEs through clusters: a comparative study of India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka

Author

Listed:
  • Sarath W.S.B. Dasanayaka
  • G.D. Sardana

Abstract

Clusters evolve as a mechanism to gain competitive advantage, when industrial units come together to share knowledge and supplement each other in enhancing strengths. The phenomenon of clustering is known to have created a high degree of networking, a market focus, an ambiance of high productivity, excellence, development of skills and creativity. These in turn can lead a firm to technological innovation and its applications. Large customers prefer to source from clusters which have developed networking to meet the challenges of high demand. A high rate of success of SMEs in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka can be traced in part to clusters. Some of these clusters are quite large responsible for a substantial share of production. The paper takes up several perspectives discussing the evolution and the growth of the clusters, their spread in the three countries and how these have helped in the development of SMEs.

Suggested Citation

  • Sarath W.S.B. Dasanayaka & G.D. Sardana, 2010. "Development of SMEs through clusters: a comparative study of India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka," World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 6(1/2), pages 50-70.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:wremsd:v:6:y:2010:i:1/2:p:50-70
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=31638
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Yasir Ahmad & Danial Saeed Pirzada, 2014. "Using Analytic Hierarchy Process for Exploring Prioritization of Functional Strategies in Auto Parts Manufacturing SMEs of Pakistan," SAGE Open, , vol. 4(4), pages 21582440145, November.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:wremsd:v:6:y:2010:i:1/2:p:50-70. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=173 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.