SME cluster development : a dynamic view of survival clusters in developing countries /
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| Author / Creator: | Parrilli, Mario Davide. |
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| Imprint: | Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. |
| Description: | xviii, 160 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6328520 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- 1. The SMEs, the fracture within the system and a systemic approach to development
- 2. The development of SME clusters
- 3. Empirical explorations in Latin American clusters
- Part I. Small and Medium Enterprise Development
- Chapter 2. Integrating the National Production System: The New Challenge for Chile
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A conceptual framework
- 3. Policy approach in the 1980s and the 1990s
- 3.1. The explicit policy approach
- 3.2. Implicit industrial policies
- 4. Enterprises' reaction to crisis
- 5. Interpretations of the slowdown: ECLAC's critique and the de-industrialisation process
- 6. The need to set up integrative industrial strategies
- Chapter 3. Inclusion Versus Fragmentation: Different Responses to Liberalisation in European and Latin American Small and Medium Enterprises
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Industrial restructuring and small firms in Europe
- 3. The main processes in Latin America: liberalisation and industrial destructuring
- 3.1. Case study: Argentina
- 3.2. Case study: Chile
- 3.3. Case study: Nicaragua
- 3.4. Case study: Costa Rica
- 3.5. A synthetic view of the Latin American response
- 4. A Strategic approach to industrial development
- Part II. Small and Medium Enterprise Cluster Development
- Chapter 4. Different Theoretical Approaches to SME Cluster Development: Relevance in the Case of Nicaragua
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The 'spontaneous' approach to SME cluster development
- 3. The 'policy-inducement' approach to SME development
- 4. The social approach
- 4.1. The social embeddedness of economic action
- 4.2. Trust in industrial districts and SME clusters
- 4.3. The social strengths of SME clusters
- 5. Empirical evidence from Nicaragua
- 5.1. An introduction to the country
- 5.2. The main programmes to support SMEs in Nicaragua
- 5.3. The limits to the division and specialisation of labour and their social roots
- 5.4. The conflictive political economy in Nicaragua
- 6. Preliminary conclusions on policy-making in SME clusters
- Chapter 5. A Stage and Eclectic Approach to Industrial District Development: Two Policy Keys for Survival Clusters in Developing Countries
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The analysis of development stages
- 3. Summing up the eclectic analytical framework
- 4. The stages of development of the Italian industrial districts
- 4.1. The passage from rural life to artisanal clusters (1920s-early 1950s)
- 4.2. The passage from craft production to industrial concentration (1950s-1960s)
- 4.3. The passage from industrial concentration to industrial districts (1960s-1960s)
- 4.4. The passage from traditional IDs to new competitive IDs (1980s-2000s)
- 5. Two policy keys for 'survival clusters' in developing countries
- 5.1. Policy key I: the importance of upgrading through stages
- 5.2. Policy key II: the relevance of an eclectic approach
- Chapter 6. Empirical Explorations in Survival Clusters in Central America and in Competitive Italian Industrial Districts
- 1. Introduction
- 2. 'Survival clusters' in developing countries
- 3. Empirical evidence from three clusters
- 3.1. The context
- 3.2. The district of Forli, Italy
- 3.3. The 'survival clusters' of Sarchi, Costa Rica, and Masaya, Nicaragua
- 4. Concluding remarks for policy-making
- Chapter 7. Conclusions
- 1. SME development
- 2. SME cluster development
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
