clusters, networks and regions in emerging economies /
edited by Allen J. Scott and Gioacchino Garofoli.
New York :
Routledge,
2007.
xii, 346 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm.
Routledge advances in management and business studies ;
33
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Region-centric concepts of development-- The regional question in economic development / Allen J. Scott, Gioacchino Garofoli -- Endogenous development: analytical and policy issues / Antonio Vázquez-Barquero -- Regional development in the Middle East and Africa -- The Arab world : the role of regional production systems in catch-up and convergence / Abdelkader Sid Ahmed -- The dynamics of territorial development in Morocco / Nacer El Kadiri, Jean Lapèze -- Kenya's garment and metal industries : global and local realities / Dorothy McCormick -- Regions and development in mixed economies -- Promise and peril : regional development in China's Pearl River delta and the northeast / Shahid Yusuf -- Industrial clusters in China : the low road versus the high road in cluster development / Jici Wang -- The production organization of the automobile and motorcycle industries in Vietnam / Thi Bich Van Ho -- Technology-intensive clusters in emerging economies -- Contrasting regimes of regional development : the telecommunications equipment industry and computer software industry in India / Balaji Parthasarathy -- Clusters and regional industrial synergies : the electronics industry in Penang and Jalisco / Rajah Rasiah -- Cluster-based strategies for development -- Policy-making for local production systems in Brazil / Wilson Suzigan, João Furtado, Renato Garcia -- Regional development and cluster management: lessons from South Africa / Mike Morris, Justin Barnes -- Regional development and global value chains -- Knowledge, obsolescence, and product segmentation / Isaac Minian -- Regional systems and global chains / Hubert Schmitz.
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These essays present a general conceptual discussion of the role of clusters, networks and regions in the growth and development of low-and-middle-income countries, focusing specifically on such diverse issues as the role of technology and labour markets in local economic development, regional dynamics in mixed economies, the logic of value chains, the effects of globalization on cities and regions in the world periphery, and the possibilities and limitations of cluster-based strategies of economic development. Exploring various countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, the essays suggest that development is not only a function of macroeconomic processes, but also proceeds from the ground up via the emergence of localized clusters of production and their associated socio-economic infrastructures.