Impacts of Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) on growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Tanzania
| dc.contributor.author | Elly, Caroline N. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-19T06:48:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description | A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for award of the degree of Masters of Business Administration in Corporate Management (MBA- CM) of Mzumbe University. | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study assessed the effect of outside direct venture (FDI) on development of little and medium undertakings (SMEs) in Dar es Salaam city. FDI isn't 100% well-disposed for neighbourhood firms and businesses in rising economies, because of the way that the appearance of outside firms presents uncomfortable and here and there out of line rivalry, in item showcases as well as in labor and capital markets. Besides, global enterprises (MNCs) may utilize their bartering capacity to get benefits and exceptions from governments not reached out to nearby firms, and therefore due to this made it important to look upon the impact of FDIs on growth of SMEs so as to identify what is really going in the market. Questionnaires were used to collect data from 11 respondents at PRISLO DESIGNS company. The data were collected from workers within the company including the owner of the business. Both qualitative and quantitative data were gathered and analyzed by means of frequency analysis respectively in each finding. The findings revealed that FDI has both positive and negative impact on growth of SMEs in Dar es Salaam city. Whereby these impacts include managerial knowledge transfer, technical knowledge transfer, generation of new entrepreneurial opportunities, advanced stages of monetary growth and human capital triggered by FDI crowd out local investment, reduction in market share owned by SMEs, increased technological gap affecting SMEs growth etc. Therefore, findings revealed that SMEs in the country need support from the Tanzanian government so as to create favorable business environment so as to help them compete with FDIs in the market. There is a need for advancing technological capacity of the country, creating environment for easy access of loan to non-collateral owners, need for export-promotion policies implementation in order SMEs to take significant role in the national economic development, government negotiators ought not give up to understanding that would result to destruction of our neighborhood enterprises while profiting MNCs rather should call for equivalent open doors for our own privately created merchandise. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Private | |
| dc.identifier.citation | APA | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://scholar.mzumbe.ac.tz/handle/123456789/2123 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Mzumbe University | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Thesis | |
| dc.subject | Foreign Direct Investment | |
| dc.subject | SME’s – Tanzania | |
| dc.subject | Traditional Macro-economic Trade Theory | |
| dc.subject | Production Cycle Theory of Vernon | |
| dc.subject | Transaction cost theory (internalization) | |
| dc.subject | Eclectic theory. | |
| dc.title | Impacts of Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) on growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Tanzania | |
| dc.type | Thesis |