Local Enterprises in the Global Economy

Edited by Hubert Schmitz

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: 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 insights for researchers and policymakers alike.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Innovations and Technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
ISBN: 9781843760993
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Globalized Localities: Introduction

Hubert Schmitz

Ch 2 Regions in the 'world economic triangle'

Dirk Messner

Ch 3 Making sense of global standards

Khalid Nadvi and Frank Wältring

Ch 4 Governance in global value chains

John Humphrey and Hubert Schmitz

Ch 5 The underground revolution in the Sinos Valley: a comparison of upgrading in global and national value chains

Luiza Bazan and Lizbeth Navas-Alemán

Ch 6 How globalization affects Italian industrial districts: the case of Brenta

Roberta Rabellotti

Ch 7 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

Ch 8 Local upgrading strategies in response to global challenges: the surgical instrument cluster of Tuttlingen, Germany

Gerhard Halder

Ch 9 Clustering and upgrading in global value chains: the Taiwanese personal computer industry

Chikashi Kishimoto

Ch 10 Global quality standards and technological upgrading in the Brazilian auto-components industry

Ruy Quadros

Ch 11 The effect of global standards on local producers: a Pakistani case study

Khalid Nadvi

Ch 12 Paradoxes and ironies of locational policy in the new global economy

Jörg Meyer-Stamer

Ch 13 Chain governance and upgrading: taking stock

John Humphrey and Hubert Schmitz

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