Management Today
Year : 2011, Volume : 1, Issue : 1
First page : ( 9) Last page : ( 24)
Print ISSN : 2230-9764. Online ISSN : 2348-3989.

Entrepreneurial Orientation and Performance Perception: A Study with Reference to SMEs in Sidco, Tamilnadu, India

Kumar M Dileep

Professor-Management, Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia, UUM, 06010, Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia, prof.mdk@gmail.com.

Online published on 15 February, 2019.

Abstract

Entrepreneurial success is simply the resultant manifestation of the ability of an entrepreneur to observe several opportunities for business in specific field, initiate change by taking advantage of the situations and creates value through interventions and solutions. Many studies have have reported on entrepreneurial behavior and its influence on entrepreneurial success. But limited number of studies is observed in Small and Medium Scale Sectors. This particular study focuses on Influence of entrepreneurial factors on performance perception of entrepreneurs. The study followed a case based research in SIDCO Industrial Estates of Madurai and Virudhunagar Districts of Tamil Nadu, India. The findings observed that the entrepreneurial orientation factors are having high influence on the performance expectation of the entrepreneurs. The implication part of the research further envisages consequence of lack of entrepreneurial orientation on business development. The study further envisaged the importance of entrepreneurial orientation for performance excellence in small and medium scale industries.

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Keywords

SMEs, Entrepreneurial Orientation, Performance perception.

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