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Title: | SMME development in peripheral regions: manufacturing in Free State Province, South Africa |
Author: | Rogerson, Christian M. |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | Urban Forum |
Volume: | 16 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 35-54 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | small-scale industry industrial development small enterprises industrial policy |
External link: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12132-005-0015-y |
Abstract: | This article contributes to existing scholarship that analyses the manufacturing small, medium and micro enterprise (SMME) economy in South Africa. It focuses on the less well-documented case of the Free State, which is one of South Africa's poorer provinces. Issues are discussed both in terms of the role of established (white-owned) and of emerging (black-owned) manufacturing enterprises. The first section of the paper offers a profile of the changing role of SMMEs in the manufacturing economy of the Free State, largely based upon an analysis of the Industrial Registers of the Bureau of Market Research, University of South Africa. This profile is situated within a discussion of the key dimensions of change impacting upon manufacturing development in the Free State as a whole. The second section draws together the key findings of 140 interviews carried out in 2003-2004 across both established and emerging SMME manufacturers in the Free State. The major themes addressed relate to developing a profile of entrepreneurs and their enterprises; an examination of their recent and projected business performance; job creation in manufacturing SMMEs; and issues of government support. The concluding section highlights policy issues concerning manufacturing SMME development. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract] |