 Factors affecting SMEs entrepreneurship development: a study on northern region of BangladeshMd. Motahar Hossain and Nitin Pathak International Journal of Business Excellence, 2025, vol. 35, issue 1, 27-41 Abstract: SMEs are considered the rising area for the economic development of any country on the planet. This area is impacted significantly with less capital contrasted with different business areas. Bangladesh has an incredible opportunity to advance SMEs area like other non-industrial nations. This examination pointed toward investigating the factors influencing the performance of small and medium enterprises in the northern area of Bangladesh. The investigation approach is quantitative. Sixty SMEs' proprietors/managers were interviewed from Bangladesh's north area for the examination. The affecting factors examined in this study were socio-economic background (age, sex, education level and parental occupation of SMEs owners and managers), work experience, technical skills, business characteristics (source of initial capital), financial constraints, enterprise management and government support. The regression results uncovered that the significant variables influencing the development of SMEs demonstrated by income in the examination region. Keywords: small and medium enterprises; SMEs; gross domestic product; poverty reduction strategy paper; SMEs entrepreneurship development; SED; Bangladesh. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijbexc:v:35:y:2025:i:1:p:27-41 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Business Excellence from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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