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Available online at ScienceDirect Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 145 ( 2014 ) 129 – 137 ICGSM 2014 Entrepreneurship management, competitive advantage and firm performances in the craft industry: concepts and framework Nor Azlina Ab Rahman*, Aliza Ramli Faculty of Accountancy, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, 40450 Selangor, Malaysia Abstract The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of small medium enterprises (SMEs) and firm performances within the craft industry by drawing attention to the critical factors influencing its performance, and to further provide an integrated framework to examine SMEs performances. In this paper, an integrative framework of firm performance and factors influencing it is proposed that relies on resource-based view theory as well as combining insights from Porter’s theory. The proposed framework allows the identification of the factors driving SMEs performances and the capture of holistic firm performance within the craft industry. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. (/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of the Accounting Research Institute, Universiti Teknologi MARA. Peer-review under responsibility of the Accounting Research Institute, Universiti Teknologi MARA. Keywords: SMEs, Craft Industry; Firm Performance; EntrepreneurshipManagement; Management Accounting; Resource-based View; Porter’s theory 1.