The networked firm in a global world : small firms in new environments /
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| Language: | English |
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Aldershot :
Ashgate,
c2000.
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| Series: | Organisation of industrial space
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Table of Contents:
- Machine derived contents note: 1 Small Firms, Networked Firms and Innovation Systems: An
- Introduction
- Eirik Vatne and Michael Taylor 1
- PART I: SMALL FIRMS VERSUS LARGE FIRMS: EFFICIENCY, FLEXIBILITY AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY
- 2 Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Space: The Plural
- Economy
- Sergio Conti 19
- 3 Industrial Network Formation and Regulation: The Case of
- Japan's SME Policy
- Yuko Aoyama 45
- PART II: THE ROLE OF SMALLER FIRMS IN COMPLEX PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
- 4 Challenges and Pathways for Small Sub-Contractors in an Era of
- Global Supply Chain Restructuring
- Poul Rind Christensen 67
- 5 Industrial Change and Local Competitive Advantage:
- Industrial Production Systems in Turin
- Paolo Giaccaria 93
- 6 Sub-Contractors, Supplier Parks and Supply Chain
- Management: The Case of Volvo's Arendal Supplier Park
- Claes G. Alvstam and Anders Larsson 111
- 7 The Unresolved Question of New versus Old: Technological
- Change and Organisational Response in the German
- Chemical Industry
- Harald Bathelt 137
- PART III: LOCALISED RESOURCES AND LOCALISED LEARNING: A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE?
- 8 Localised Knowledge, Interactive Learning and Innovation:
- Between Regional Networks and Global Corporations
- Bjrn T. Asheim andArne Isaksen 163
- 9 Enterprise, Power and Embeddedness: An Empirical Exploration
- Michael Taylor 199
- 10 Explaining Intemationalisation of SMEs: The Importance
- of Internal and Local Resources
- Heikki Eskelinen and Eirik Vatne 235
- 11 Decline and Renewal in Industrial Districts: Exit Strategies
- of SMEs in Consumer Goods Industrial Districts of Germany
- Eike W. Schamp 257
- 12 Modernising the Industrial District: Rejuvenation or
- Managerial Colonisation?
- Bengt Johannisson 283.