Local enterprises in the global economy : issues of governance and upgrading /
"This book opens a fresh chapter in the debate on local enterprise clusters and their strategies for upgrading in the global economy. The authors employ a novel conceptual framework in their research on industrial clusters in Europe, Latin America and Asia, and provide new perspectives and insi...
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Cheltenham, UK ; Northhampton, MA :
Edward Elgar,
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Table of Contents:
- Globalized localities : introduction / Hubert Schmitz
- Regions in the 'world economic triangle' / Dirk Messner
- Making sense of global standards / Khalid Nadvi and Frank Wältring
- Governance in global value chains / John Humphrey and Hubert Schmitz
- The underground revolution in the Sinos Valley : a comparison of upgrading in global and national value chains / Luiza Bazan and Lizbeth Navas-Alemán
- How globalization affects Italian industrial districts : the case of Brenta / Roberta Rabellotti
- Upgrading in the tile industry of Italy, Spain and Brazil : insights from cluster and value chain analysis / Jörg Meyer-Stamer, Claudio Maggi and Silene Seibel
- Local upgrading strategies in response to global challenges : the surgical instrument cluster of Tuttlingen, Germany / Gerhard Halder
- Clustering and upgrading in global value chains : the Taiwanese personal computer industry / Chikashi Kishimoto
- Global quality standards and technological upgrading in the Brazilian auto-components industry / Ruy Quadros
- The effect of global standards on local producers : a Pakistani case study / Khalid Nadvi
- Paradoxes and ironies of locational policy in the new global economy / Jörg Meyer-Stamer
- Chain governance and upgrading : taking stock / John Humphrey and Hubert Schmitz.