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side by side in addition to the above-mentioned two areas, but woodworking shops independently
operating in an area other than agglomerated areas are extremely rare.
In terms of ownership of land and sheds by managers, all surveyed companies constructed
sheds for their workshops at their own cost; however, only eight percent of the companies owned
land, and members of the late group are overwhelmingly renting plots. There are only three
landlords with signed rent contracts in the overall Bwaise area because many managers rent land
from the same landlord. Woodcrafters who had woodworking skills and techniques or whose
relatives owned land were thus given chances for business promotion and choice of location before
the newcomers. This shows that infrastructure, i.e., existence of roads and access to land, was also
essential in determining SME location preference (Figure 1) (Yoshida 2005).
source: Prepared by author.
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