Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Syed Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O’Connell, Stephen D.

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“…Ghani et al (2011c) study the increase since 1994 in female-owned businesses in India. These urbanization trends and the special role of the unorganized sector are not due to this increased role for women, as female-owned business shares track upwards in urban and rural settings together.…”

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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?

Ghani¹,

Goswami²,

Kerr³

2012

Policy Research Working Papers

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This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. While the secular trend for India's manufacturing urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure have not. Our results suggest that districts with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost ratios cause movement out of urban areas. This process is associated with improvements in the spatial allocation of plants across urban and rural locations. Spatial location of plants has implications for policy on investments in education, infrastructure, and the livability of cities. The high share of urbanization occurring in the informal sector suggests that urbanization policies that contain inclusionary approaches may be more successful in promoting local development and managing its strains than those focused only on the formal sector.

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Kerr³

2012

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“…Examples include work that has considered how leadership capacities and practices are limited by the realities of large, complex, transnational corporate organizations (Alstam et al, 2014), how leadership interacts with urban and regional institutional contexts (Bathelt and Glückler, 2014) and also how the nature and form of mobilities of senior leaders is developing in the contemporary global economy (e.g. Plattner, 2012; Ghani et al, 2013).…”

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Geographies of production III

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2016

Progress in Human Geography

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link AbstractWithin economic geography there has been a growing body of work that straddles the disciplinary boundaries of management studies and international business (IB) scholarship.Whilst this growing cross-disciplinary proximity may be related to increasing numbers of economic geographers being located in business and management schools, this report argues that it also corresponds to a growing fruitful and productive cross-disciplinary interest from both management studies and international business. It contends that there is growing epistemological and theoretical common ground between both these disciplines and economic geography which reflects a shift towards spatial thinking being increasingly evident in the empirical and conceptual concerns of management and IB scholars. The report reviews two major elements to this intersection within the recent economic geographical literature -what might be loosely be termed the 'new management geography' and a broad set work that brings together the thinking of economic geographers and IB scholarship concerned within firm internationalization.

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“…They find that input-output agglomeration economies matter for manufacturing firm entry, for both formal and informal firms. Ghani et al (2011b) compare the spatial determinants of entry separately for male and female entrepreneurs in informal manufacturing and services in India.…”

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Coagglomeration of Formal and Informal Industry: Evidence from India

Mukim¹

2013

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India

Cited by 6 publications

References 78 publications

Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?

Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?

Geographies of production III

Coagglomeration of Formal and Informal Industry: Evidence from India

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