Performance Measurement of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Pakistan
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14738/abr.23.320Abstract
This paper examines the performance of small and medium enterprises in Pakistan through primary data collection from 199 business concerns. The study shows that most of the people maintain record of their revenues to measure performance of their organizations. There are many approaches used for performance evaluation but in Pakistan these approaches are not very much popular for performance measurement. Paper analysis those approaches more commonly used in Pakistan for measuring performance for small businesses.
Keywords: Performance evaluation, small and medium business, SMEs, Pakistan.
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