Fulfilling the Export Potential of Small and Medium Firms
Fulfilling the Export Potential of Small and Medium Firms addresses the question, `How can economic policy contribute to a strong export performance by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries?' In today's increasingly integrated world
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Fulfilling the Export
Potential of Small and Medium Firms by
BRIANLEVY World Bank
ALBERT BERRY University of Toronto
JEFFREY B. NUGENT University of Southern California
with
JOSE FRANCISCO ESCANDON MOTOSHIGE ITOH UNSUKIM SHUJlRO URATA
SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Levy, Brian. Fulfilling the export potential of small and medium firms / by Brian Levy, Albert Berry, Jeffrey B. Nugent ; with Jose Francisco Escandon ... [et al.]. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4613-7354-4 ISBN 978-1-4615-5169-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-5169-0 1. Exports-Developing countries. 2. Small business-Developing countries. 3. Foreign trade promotion-Developing countries. 4. Developing countries-Commercial policy. 1. Berry, R. Albert. II. Nugent, Jeffrey B. III. Title. HF1413.lA73 1999 98-51684 382' .6'091724-dc21 CIP Copyright c 1999 by Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1999 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover lst edition 1999 AII rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC Printed on acid-free paper.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Contributors Acknowledgments
vii ix
1. Supporting the Export Activities of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Brian Levy, Albert Berry and Jeffrey B. Nugent
2. Technical, Marketing and Financial Support for Indonesia's Small and Medium Industrial Exporters
31
Albert Berry and Brian Levy
3. The Support System for Small and Medium Exporters in Japan
73
Motoshige Itoh and Shujiro Urata
4. Korean SMEs and Their Support Mechanisms Linsu Kim and Jeffrey B. Nugent S. Colombia's Small and Medium Exporters and Their Support System
115
169
Albert Berry and Jose Francisco Escandon
6. Comparative Analysis of SME Support Systems Brian Levy, Albert Berry and Jeffrey B. Nugent
221
7. Implications for Theory, Policy and Future Research
261
Jeffrey B. Nugent, Albert Berry and Brian Levy
References
277
Index
289
CONTRIBUTORS
ALBERT BERRY Professor of Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada JOSE FRANCISCO ESCANDON Consultant, Bogota, Colombia BRIAN B. LEVY World Bank, Washington, D.c', U.S.A.
LINSU KIM School of Business Administration, Korea University, Seoul, Korea JEFFREY B. NUGENT Professor of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California MOTOSHIGE ITOH Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
SHUJIRO URATA Professor of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This study was initiated by the World Bank, which covered the costs of Brian Levy's time and hosted a conference in February 1994 ("Can Intervention Work? The Role of Government in SME Success") and other meetings at which the research methodology and
