TY  - SER
AU  - Shah, Amita
TI  - Developing the Peripheral Economy
PY  - 2000///
KW  - Industry Assocation
KW  - Support Environment
KW  - Small Business Development
KW  - Support Environment For Small Business D
KW  - Entrepreneurship Research
KW  - Entrepreneurshipesearch
KW  - Fourth Biennial Conference On Current Tr
KW  - Biennial Conference Papers
N2  - Industries Association (IA) as an institutional mechanism is receiving significant attention for promoting industrial growth in the post-liberalisation period. The basic rationale underlying .a membership association  is that it helps building up collective strength and thereby achieves economies of scale and scope. This may help expediting growth of not only at the level of member units or a cluster of such units but, also at national as well as global levels. Conventionally, the IAs are expected to .perform three important roles for promoting interest of the member enterprises. These are (i) advocacy support; (ii) information dissemination as well as counselling; and (iii) networking. While all these three are important functions for IAs, especially, for those based on membership  fees, the relative significance of each of the three functions may however depend on their effectiveness with the member clients. Since the LAs are one of the several agencies working towards the above goals, it is essential that each IA carves out a niche area where its intervention can yield significant value addition at different levels (Atherton and Gibb, 1996)
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