The Impact of Training on SME’s Longevity in Mozambique

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) employ more labor-intensive production processes, make income distribution more equitable, provide simple opportunities for value-adding processing activities, making the rationale to support them a will to increase production, and technology transfer. A pertinent question arises when it is asked to what extent we should rely on them in respect to period of operation. Duration analysis, which is here, the study of longevity among SMEs in service and non-service that benefited from outsider-based capacity building (OBCB) in their first to third year of operation in Mozambique. The overriding research backbone guiding this research asks if the life span behavior pattern SMEs in Mozambique track after engaging in OBCB follow traditional literature, whereby outsider-based guidance, company revenue, shareholder funds, net profit have a significant impact on the longevity of the enterprise? And if there is an impact proffered by the number of employees an SME possess? And if SMEs don’t endure for longer period, how long is this time for cases in Mozambique?