Globalized localities : introduction / Hubert Schmitz -- Regions in the 'world economic triangle' / Dirk Messner -- Making sense of global standards / Khalid Nadvi and Frank Wältring -- Governance in global value chains / John Humphrey and Hubert Schmitz -- The underground revolution in the Sinos Valley : a comparison of upgrading in global and national value chains / Luiza Bazan and Lizbeth Navas-Alemán -- How globalization affects Italian industrial districts : the case of Brenta / Roberta Rabellotti -- Upgrading in the tile industry of Italy, Spain and Brazil : insights from cluster and value chain analysis / Jörg Meyer-Stamer, Claudio Maggi and Silene Seibel -- Local upgrading strategies in response to global challenges : the surgical instrument cluster of Tuttlingen, Germany / Gerhard Halder -- Clustering and upgrading in global value chains : the Taiwanese personal computer industry / Chikashi Kishimoto -- Global quality standards and technological upgrading in the Brazilian auto-components industry / Ruy Quadros -- The effect of global standards on local producers : a Pakistani case study / Khalid Nadvi -- Paradoxes and ironies of locational policy in the new global economy / Jörg Meyer-Stamer -- Chain governance and upgrading : taking stock / John Humphrey and Hubert Schmitz.
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"By showing how and why insertion in global value chains can accelerate or inhibit local upgrading, this book represents a significant contribution to the academic and political debate on globalization. It will be essential reading for all students, academics and researchers interested in global political economy, global and local governance structures, economic geography and innovation studies."--Jacket.
"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." "This book brings together theoretical and empirical research on local and regional clusters, global value chains and global standards, using case studies from developed and developing countries. The authors provide a new understanding of how global and local governance interact, highlighting power and inequality in global chains but also identifying scope for local action."