Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 392 p)
,
ill
ISBN:
9781843769743
Series Statement:
Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
Content:
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
Content:
1. Globalized localities : introduction -- 2. Regions in the "world economic triangle" -- 3. Making sense of global standards -- 4. Governance in global value chains -- 5. The underground revolution in the Sinos Valley : a comparison of upgrading in global and national value chains -- 6. How globalization affects Italian industrial districts : the case of Brenta -- 7. Upgrading in the tile industry of Italy, Spain and brazil : insights from cluster and value chain analysis -- 8. Local upgrading strategies in response to global challenges : the surgical instrument cluster of Tuttlingen, Germany -- 9. Clustering and upgrading in global value chains : the Taiwanese personal computer industry -- 10. Global quality standards and technological upgrading in the Brazilian auto-components industry -- 11. The effect of global standards on local producers : a Pakistani case study -- 12. Paradoxes and ironies of locational policy in the new global economy -- 13. Chain governance and upgrading : taking stock
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845421922 (pbk.)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1843760991
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781843760993 (hardback)
Additional Edition:
Available in another form ISBN 9781843760993 (hardback)
Additional Edition:
Elektronische Reproduktion von Local enterprises in the global economy Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, 2004 ISBN 1843760991
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
,
Geography
Keywords:
Europa
;
Regionalwirtschaft
;
Industrie
;
Globalisierung
;
Lateinamerika
;
Asien
;
Globalisierung
;
Klein- und Mittelbetrieb
;
Corporate Governance
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.4337/9781843769743
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