Smes in asia and the pacific
SMEs in Asia and the Pacific: a profile of the corporate landscape
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7 - 1. SMEs IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
1.1.2. SMEs in Asia and the Pacific: a profile of the corporate landscape
As noted earlier, SMEs tend to dominate the corporate community in all countries, at least in terms of company registrations, if not always in terms of aggregate size. In less developed countries, for example Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Nepal, SMEs represent the vast bulk of the corporate sector. And even at the other end of the economic spectrum in Asia, in Japan for example, SMEs account for about 99 per cent of all firms, 70 per cent of total employment and 50 per cent of GDP output. SMEs play an important economic role in virtually all countries, albeit to varying degrees, and it is their relationship with other elements of the corporate community—including foreign-invested enterprises and large domestic corporations (whether State-owned or private)—that is often a critical determinant of their long-term success. Mutually beneficial linkages are typically established between these various elements of the corporate community. This is not a static arrangement. Rather, it is a fluid set of relationships that mutate over time, as individual SMEs and other business organizations inevitably wax and wane. This is particularly true of SMEs that are driven by entrepreneurs, typically seeking to exploit an opportunity that they have perceived to exist. And it is the “innovative tension” that arises which drives an economy forward; hence the crucial importance of property rights (including intellectual property rights). In the context of developing and less developed economies, Gries and Naudé (2008a), in the context of an endogenous growth model they developed, depict the role played by entrepreneur-driven SMEs in advancing an economy thus: In essence the transformation from a low-income, traditional economy to a modern economy … involves significant changes to production methods, a process of change where … entrepreneurs provide essential roles: first, in creating new firms outside of the household, second by absorbing surplus labour from the traditional sector, third by providing innovative intermediate inputs to final-goods producing Download 0.58 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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