The institutions of local development /

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Imprint:Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, c2003.
Description:x, 195 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:IGU series on local development
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4956347
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Other authors / contributors:Sforzi, Fabio.
ISBN:0754632474 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Contributors
  • Preface
  • Part I. Place-Specificity of Competitiveness
  • 1. Local Embeddedness and International Competitiveness--The Case of the Swedish Music Cluster
  • 2. The Local Embeddedness of Ethnic Entrepreneurship--Over- and Under-Embeddedness in the Israeli Arab Economy
  • 3. High-Technology Clustering in Cambridge (UK)
  • Part II. Trust Shaping Collective Action
  • 4. The Relations of Co-operation in Group Enterprises and Associations in Ghana--Exploration of Issues of Trust and Power
  • 5. Social Capital and Development--Issues of Institutional Design and Trust in Mexican Group-Based Microfinance
  • 6. Constructing Alternative Circuits of Value--The Case of Local Currency Systems (LCSs)
  • Part III. Social Capital in the Pathways of Local Development
  • 7. Social Capital in the Development of the Agro Nocerino-Sarnese
  • 8. The Emerging of Different Patterns of Local Development in the Third Italy
  • Index