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Small Capitalists or 'Agents of Underdevelopment'? A Case Study of a Large Industrial Estate in South Gujarat

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  • Pieter Gorter

    (Berlin, Germany)

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In hardly any other country has the small-scale enterprise sector received as much official support as in India. Nevertheless, for a long time small- scale industry could not find favour with scholars dealing with the Indian process of industrialisation. For those with a modernisation theoretical frame of reference entrepreneurship was found wanting. Neo-marxists, on the other hand, saw no future for small-scale industry because of the stranglehold of large companies over the economy. The entrepreneurs were seen as commercially oriented and 'rent-seekers', living off state revenues. With the help of the data relating to a large industrial estate in Gujarat, India, the author re-examines in this paper the validity of some of these views.

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  • Pieter Gorter, 1996. "Small Capitalists or 'Agents of Underdevelopment'? A Case Study of a Large Industrial Estate in South Gujarat," Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, vol. 5(1), pages 41-64, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jouent:v:5:y:1996:i:1:p:41-64
    DOI: 10.1177/097135579600500103
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    1. Rutten, Mario, 2002. "A historical and comparative view on the study of Indian entrepreneurship," economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, vol. 3(2), pages 3-16.

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