A Research Concerns the Determinants of Supply Chain Performance among SME's in Tirupur Textile Cluster

Abstract

The research delves at length into the determinants of supply chain performance among the SMEs in the Tirupur textile cluster, especially the garment segment. It was important to identify knowledgeable respondents who could truly depict the research situation and support the research. This does not purport to influence the study as the population members would intuitively appiy the concepts and principles of cluster theory and supply chain management. In the present study,lhe researcher adopted a cross-sectional research design to provide a 'snap-shot' of whether the adoption of a supply chain enhances the performance of the company. The conclusions and considerations of the study dealwithhow the determinants in this study of supply chain performance in an industry cluster have contributed to supply chain performance. The very fact that a combination of sorts is attempted, including internalfacing and external (customer) facing dimensions, for sure will pave way for further research on these lines. The limited number of articles about this specific aspect that have been found in the literaturereview underlines the originality of the discussion proposed here and suggests that further research is needed to expand the empirical results to a broader spectrum of issues.