New Competitiveness and New Enterprises in Peru: Small Businesses in an Internationalized Economy

摘要

A number of small and micro enterprises (SMEs) in Peru were able to quadruple their employment and increase their capital assets nine-fold during the 1980's. This study, conducted in 1992 of 51 successful small firms within Peru's shoe, sweater, garment, and metalworking industries, examines the reasons for this success. Chapters 1 and 2 discuss the study's methodology and analytical framework, while Chapter 3, the heart of the report, contrasts the successful and competitive SMEs with those that remain at the subsistence level in terms of management, production, marketing, and finance. Chapter 4 lists the success factors for each of the four industries studied, the main restrictions to growth, and the options for dealing with these restrictions, while Chapter 5 contains profiles of owners of the 51 study firms.