Networking Strategies among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: The Example from South Serbia

Biljana Predić and Danijela Stošić

Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 2013, vol. 15, issue 3, 306-323

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to show possible effects of networking strategies and to examine the realization of these effects in the case of clustering of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The Nišava District Textile Cluster has been chosen in order to test the impact of clustering on the performance of SMEs. The dynamics of cluster members' growth and development indicators during the four-year period shows that some improvements have been achieved. Nevertheless, further statistical analysis does not confirm the existence of positive effects of this cluster on its members' business performance, that is, their growth and development. The cluster's short lifespan, effects of the world economic crisis and, the most important, the inadequate structure and support of the examined cluster are seen as the main reasons for this absence of positive effects.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.789322

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