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Original Articles

Identifying ‘anchor’ micro-enterprises – an empirical study

Pages 1-26 | Published online: 14 Jul 2014
 

Abstract

This paper explicitly integrates entrepreneurial orientation and absorptive capacity constructs to understand their combined impact on the performance of micro enterprises with the aim to identify ‘anchor’ firms. Anchor firms are those firms that have the maximum potential to create ‘high value’ in their operations and serve as examples to other companies in the area to emulate. Using principal component and ordinal regression analysis, 79.3% (Nagelkerke R2) of the variance in the performance can be explained and the model meets the necessary tests of proportional odds. The results show that categorization based on the predicted values is able to identify successfully 72.73% of the potential anchor firms while 94.44% and 88.24% of the low performers and medium performers, respectively, were also correctly identified. More importantly, none of these low or medium performers is misclassified as anchor firms.

Le présent article intègre de manière explicite les concepts d’Orientation entrepreneuriale et de Capacité d'absorption afin de comprendre leur impact combiné sur les performances des microentreprises dans le but d'identifier les entreprises « phares ». Les entreprises phares sont les entreprises qui possèdent le maximum de potentiel pour créer une « forte valeur » dans le cadre de leurs activités d'exploitation et servir d'exemples aux autres entreprises. En utilisant une analyse en composantes principales et de régression ordinale, 79,3% (Nagelkerke R2) des écarts de performance peuvent être expliqués et le modèle satisfait aux tests nécessaires de probabilité proportionnelle. Les résultats montrent que la catégorisation basée sur les valeurs prédites est capable d'identifier avec succès 72,73% des entreprises phares potentielles, tandis que respectivement 94,44% et 88,24% des entreprises peu ou moyennement performantes ont également été correctement identifiées. Plus important encore, aucune de ces entreprises peu ou moyennement performantes n'a été classée de façon erronée dans les entreprises phares.

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Dhruba Lahiri

Dhruba Lahiri is a lecturer in international business at Maastricht School of Management, The Netherlands. His research interest is looking into the role of micro-enterprises in economic development, especially in peripheral states or regions.

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