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Resource access mechanisms in networks and SME survival in Ghana

George Acheampong, Raphael Odoom, Thomas Anning-Dorson, Patrick Amfo Anim

Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy

ISSN: 1750-6204

Article publication date: 30 October 2018

Issue publication date: 28 November 2018

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Abstract

Purpose

The study aims to determine the resource access mechanism in inter-firm networks that aids SME survival in Ghana.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors collect census data on a poultry cluster in Ghana and construct a directed network. The network is used to extract direct and indirect ties both incoming and outgoing, as well as estimate the structural holes of the actors. These variables are used to estimate for survival of SMEs after a one-year period using a binary logit model.

Findings

The study finds that out-indirect ties and structural hole have a significant influence on SME survival. This works through the global influence and the vision advantage that these positions and ties offer the SMEs.

Originality/value

The study offers SMEs a choice of whom to collaborate with for information (resources) in the form of outgoing and incoming ties at both the global and local level.

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Citation

Acheampong, G., Odoom, R., Anning-Dorson, T. and Anim, P.A. (2018), "Resource access mechanisms in networks and SME survival in Ghana", Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, Vol. 12 No. 5, pp. 611-631. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEC-08-2017-0072

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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