SMART JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT STUDIES VOL. 4 NO. 2 PAPER 6
 
DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES AND SUCCESS STATUS OF LEATHER INDUSTRY ENTREPRENEURS - AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
 
T. Mohamed Ilyas
Reader in Commerce, Islamiah College, Vaniyambadi, Tamil Nadu, India
 
The export of leather and leather products from India during the current financial year is expected to be US dollars five billion while its performance during the previous financial year was about US dollars 2.5 billion. As the industry’s contribution to the economic development of the nation is very large, it is very essential to assess its status in terms of entrepreneurial success. There is a general belief that certain demographic factors like age, educational qualification, experience, ancestral background, native place etc contribute to the success among the leather industry entrepreneurs. The author in this research article has made an attempt to find out the relationship between these demographic variables and the entrepreneurial success.
 
KEYWORDS: Leather Industry, Demographic Variables, EESI JEL CLASSIFICATIONS: L60, L67, J11 FULL TEXT