SME Cluster Development A Dynamic View of Survival Clusters in Developing Countries

, by Parrilli, Mario Davide

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ISBN: 9780230007970 | 023000797X
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Copyright: 3/15/2007

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This book presents a new interpretation of the development of industrial clusters of small enterprises in developing countries.

List of Tables	p. x
List of Figures	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xii
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
The SMEs, the fracture within the system and a systemic approach to development	p. 2
The development of SME clusters	p. 5
Empirical explorations in Latin American clusters	p. 8
Small and Medium Enterprise Development	p. 11
Integrating the National Production System: The New Challenge for Chile	p. 13
Introduction	p. 13
A conceptual framework	p. 14
Policy approach in the 1980s and the 1990s	p. 16
The explicit policy approach	p. 16
Implicit industrial policies	p. 18
Enterprises' reaction to crisis	p. 21
Interpretations of the slowdown: ECLAC's critique and the de-industrialisation process	p. 25
The need to set up integrative industrial strategies	p. 26
Inclusion Versus Fragmentation: Different Responses to Liberalisation in European and Latin American Small and Medium Enterprises	p. 30
Introduction	p. 30
Industrial restructuring and small firms in Europe	p. 32
The main processes in Latin America: liberalisation and industrial destructuring	p. 35
Case study: Argentina	p. 37
Case study: Chile	p. 40
Case study: Nicaragua	p. 43
Case study: Costa Rica	p. 46
A synthetic view of the Latin American response	p. 48
A Strategic approach to industrial development	p. 50
Small and Medium Enterprise Cluster Development	p. 55
Different Theoretical Approaches to SME Cluster Development: Relevance in the Case of Nicaragua	p. 57
Introduction	p. 57
The 'spontaneous' approach to SME cluster development	p. 59
The 'policy-inducement' approach to SME development	p. 61
The social approach	p. 63
The social embeddedness of economic action	p. 63
Trust in industrial districts and SME clusters	p. 64
The social strengths of SME clusters	p. 66
Empirical evidence from Nicaragua	p. 69
An introduction to the country	p. 69
The main programmes to support SMEs in Nicaragua	p. 71
The limits to the division and specialisation of labour and their social roots	p. 74
The conflictive political economy in Nicaragua	p. 76
Preliminary conclusions on policy-making in SME clusters	p. 78
A Stage and Eclectic Approach to Industrial District Development: Two Policy Keys for Survival Clusters in Developing Countries	p. 82
Introduction	p. 82
The analysis of development stages	p. 84
Summing up the eclectic analytical framework	p. 85
The stages of development of the Italian industrial districts	p. 89
The passage from rural life to artisanal clusters (1920s-early 1950s)	p. 89
The passage from craft production to industrial concentration (1950s-1960s)	p. 92
The passage from industrial concentration to industrial districts (1960s-1960s)	p. 94
The passage from traditional IDs to new competitive IDs (1980s-2000s)	p. 96
Two policy keys for 'survival clusters' in developing countries	p. 101
Policy key I: the importance of upgrading through stages	p. 101
Policy key II: the relevance of an eclectic approach	p. 103
Empirical Explorations in Survival Clusters in Central America and in Competitive Italian Industrial Districts	p. 105
Introduction	p. 105
'Survival clusters' in developing countries	p. 106
Empirical evidence from three clusters	p. 107
The context	p. 107
The district of Forli, Italy	p. 109
The 'survival clusters' of Sarchi, Costa Rica, and Masaya, Nicaragua	p. 116
Concluding remarks for policy-making	p. 124
Conclusions	p. 126
SME development	p. 127
SME cluster development	p. 132
Notes	p. 136
Bibliography	p. 142
Index	p. 155
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SME Cluster Development A Dynamic View of Survival Clusters in Developing Countries

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