Many doctoral studies in Asia have touched on questions of SME growth and
development including factors influencing such growth and development and how
governments and industry organizations can assist such development. It is generally
expected that as studies examined this area, characteristics of enterprises and
characteristics of owner/managers would feature in the studies and therefore, some
overlap exists between the doctoral outcomes examined below and outcomes
illustrated from theses in the previous section.
In Malaysia, a research program focused on growth and development of SME
manufacturers in an area around Penang