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INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS
The dilemma of Knowledge Management, innovation and
entrepreneurship in SME’s: an empirical study
JUNE 2011
VOL 3, NO 2
Waseem Abbas Mirza(corresponding authors)
PhD Research Scholar, Department of Management Sciences,
Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science & Technology (SZABIST),
Islamabad, Pakistan
Dr. Bakhtiar Ali
Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences,
Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science & Technology (SZABIST),
Islamabad, Pakistan
Abstract
This study investigates the perceived importance of knowledge management and innovation,
demographics, entrepreneurship, firm size, and turnover in SME’s. This particular paper
contributes to the body of literature by analysing the different elements that directly affect the
sustainable growth of SME’s in Pakistan. To achieve success in identifying the best value of
their knowledge asset, the SME’s need to give equal attention towards the implementation of
knowledge management strategies. Findings reflect that, the awareness of knowledge
management, innovation, firm size, demographics is positively related to the sustainable growth
of a firm. The small and medium size industry, which is the backbone of Pakistan’s economy, is
needed to be addressed in order to have more understanding about the factors that are
contributing towards its growth.
Key Words: Knowledge management, Small and medium size industries, Innovation,
entrepreneurship, demographics
1. Introduction
1.1 Objectives of the research
There are many factors that affect the growth of SME’s in Pakistan. However, the objective of
this paper is to find out that whether Knowledge management awareness, turnover,
demographics, entrepreneurship, innovation and firm size has any affect towards the sustainable
growth of the SME’s of Pakistan.
1.2 Problem statement / Literature gap and research questions: -
The objective of this current study is to analyze the regularity, role and nature of knowledge
management activity, entrepreneurship, innovation, demographics, and firm size and turn over in
the context of Small and medium sized enterprise (SME). More or less, these all factors have
never adopted to investigate their impact on the performance of the small and medium size
industries especially in Pakistan. The understanding of the factors that are responsible for
sustainable growth in the SME sector in Pakistan is the need of the time as SME sector is one of
the major sectors in the Pakistan in terms of employment and their contribution towards GDP. In
Pakistan, a very limited research has been carried out in order to know which are responsible for
the sustainable growth in SME’s.
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