Abstract
The prime objective of this study is to analyze the role of entrepreneurial characteristics, organizational factors and barriers on the firm growth of sports firms in Sialkot. This study will be a contribution to understanding the industrial growth of export driven sports goods sector in Sialkot. This study explores the factors causing the potential of this highly profitable and export oriented industry to remain untapped and will help the policy makers to address the underlying structural issues restricting the firm growth in this industry. Factor analysis had been used to extract 5 factors out of 26 characteristics. The extracted factor groups were then regressed on the indicators of firm growth; sales revenue, export revenue and full time employment generation. Results suggest that factors involving institutional and non-institutional limit firm growth of Sialkot Sports Industry and have a significant negative impact on the firm growth indicators, whereas entrepreneurial characteristics, firm specific characteristics and innovative ability of the manager have a significantly positive effect on the firm growth indicators.
Keyword(s)
Entrepreneurial characteristics, Firm growth, Motivation, Sports industry