“The overall objective of this study is to explore the growth of micro and small furniture-manufacturing firms in the industrial clusters and to analyse the implications that this growth has for poverty
reduction among firm owners and workers. The specific objectives are four fold: (i) To identify the socioeconomic characteristics that prevail among the owners of furniture firms and their workers and to identify how these characteristics influence firm growth within the industrial clusters; (ii) To analyse growth dynamics of furniture manufacturing firms in the industrial clusters; (iii) To indentify inter-firm relationship mechanisms and explain the ways in which these mechanisms support or weaken the growth of clustered furniture-manufacturing firms; (iv) To identify challenges constraining the growth of furniture firms within the industrial clusters.”
