Business Networks

Prospects for Regional Development

Udo H. Staber, Norbert V. Schaefer, Basu Sharma, Udo H. Staber, Norbert V. Schaefer, Basu Sharma

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9783110151077
• eBook ISBN: 9783110809053
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Subtopic: Business allgemein

Table of contents

• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• 1. Networks and Regional Development: Perspectives and Unresolved Issues
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 The Promises of Networking for Regional Development
• 1.3 Business Networks in the New Economic Environment
• 1.4 The Institutional Framework of Business Networks
• 1.4.1 Network Boundaries
• 1.4.2 Power, Autonomy, and Dependence
• 1.4.3 Managing the Public-Private Interface
• 1.4.4 Performance Evaluation
• 1.5 Conclusion
• 2. Flexible Specialization in Regional Networks
• 2.1 Flexible Specialization, Regional Networks, and Strategic Networks
• 2.2 German Experiences: Baden-Württemberg and Beyond
• 2.3 InBroNet: A Regional Network in the Financial Service Industry
• 2.3.1 Insurance Brokers and their Role within Financial Services Networks
• 2.3.2 InBroNet: Insurance Brokers on their Way to Flexible Specialization
• 2.3.3 Managing the Formation of InBroNet: Tensions and Contradictions
• 2.4 Organizing Regional Networks: Some Conclusions for Business and Public Policy
• 3. Regional-Industrial Networks and the Role of Labour
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Regional-Industrial Networks and the “Network Paradigm”
• 3.3 Unions and the Network Paradigm
• 3.4 The Difference that Labour Relations Make
• 3.5 Obstacles to Industrial Network Formation in Canada’s Regions
• 3.6 Reflections on the Northern Ontario Case Study: Lessons for Future Action
• 4. Rationalizing State Economic Development
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Background
• 4.3 Political Entrepreneurship and the Creation of an Industrial Extension Service
• 4.3.1 Market Failure and Industrial Extension Services
• 4.3.2 The Creation of an Industrial Extension Service
• 4.4 The Case of New Hampshire
• 4.4.1 New Hampshire’s Low Cost Economic Development Strategy
• 4.4.2 New Hampshire Reconsiders its Economic Development Strategy
• 4.4.3 Forging a Governor’s Technology Partnership
• 4.4.4 Lessons from New Hampshire
• 4.5 Conclusions: The Need to Rationalize State Development Efforts
• 5. Québec’s Strategy to Foster Value-Adding Interfirm Cooperation
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Québec’s Economic Strategy
• 5.3 Strategy Phases
• 5.3.1 The Clustering Phase
• 5.3.2 The Networking Phase
• 5.4 Linking the Network Enterprise Approach with the Industrial Strategy
• 5.4.1 The Network Enterprise Model
• 5.4.2 The Network Enterprise Approach
• 5.5 Conclusion
• 6. The Industrial Resurgence of Southern California?
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 A Brief Conceptual Overview of the Problem of Local Economic Development
• 6.2.1 The Organization and Location of Industry
• 6.2.2 The Emergence and Growth of Industrial Regions
• 6.2.3 Markets and Institutions in Regional Economic Development
• 6.2.4 Local Economic Development in Practice
• 6.3 The Advanced Ground Transportation Equipment Industry: Specifications of a Regional Industrial Complex for Southern California
• 6.3.1 Southern California’s Current Industrial Assets
• 6.3.2 Broad Outlines of a Prospective Advanced Ground Transportation Equipment Industry
• 6.3.3 The Detailed Structure of a Possible Ground Transportation Equipment Industry in Southern California
• 6.3.4 A System of Regional Synergies
• 6.4 Practical Policy Issues
• 6.4.1 The MTA’s Thirty-Year Plan
• 6.4.2 Institution-Building and Political Mobilization: Some Proposals
• 6.4.3 The Wider Political Context
• 6.5 Conclusion
• 7. Strategic Economic Cooperation and Employment Relations Issues
• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 Strategic Economic Cooperation in Asia
• 7.3 Commodity Chains and Regional Divisions of Labour
• 7.4 Growth Triangles and Employment Relations
• 7.5 Consequences for Theoretical Debates
• 7.6 Concluding Remarks
• 8. The Social Embeddedness of Industrial District Networks
• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Balancing Cooperation and Competition for Continuous Learning
• 8.3 The Social Embeddedness Approach to Networking
• 8.4 Institutional Structures and Processes in District Relations
• 8.4.1 Institutional Elements and Mechanisms of Control
• 8.4.2 Carriers of Institutional Processes
• 8.5 Policy Implications
• 8.6 Conclusion
• 9. Why Do Industries Cluster?
• 9.1 Introduction
• 9.2 Competitive Advantage and Fuzzy Implementation
• 9.3 Towards a Business-Based Theory of Cluster Development
• 9.3.1 Production Channels as an Economic Development Tool
• 9.3.2 Beyond Industry-Level Relationships
• 9.3.3 Global Networks or Regional Industry Clusters?
• 9.4 Rivalry Versus Cooperation
• 9.4.1 Just-In-Time Production
• 9.4.2 Building Niche Markets
• 9.5 Factor Market Relationships
• 9.5.1 Technology Transfer
• 9.5.2 Workforce Quality
• 9.5.3 Skills
• 9.5.4 Work Attitudes
• 9.6 Institutional Relationships
• 9.6.1 Labor-Management Relations
• 9.6.2 Civic Capacity
• 9.7 Conclusion: Building Cluster Potential at the State and Local Level
• 10. Regional Clusters and Economic Development: A Research Agenda
• 10.1 Introduction
• 10.2 Some Definitions
• 10.3 The Economics of Clustering
• 10.4 The Boundaries of Regional Clusters
• 10.5 Competition and Cooperation in Regional Clusters
• 10.6 Governing Relations in Regional Clusters
• 10.7 Globalization-Localization Tensions
• 10.8 The Failure Modes of Geographic Clusters
• 10.9 Government, Regional Clusters, and the Nature of Regional Policy
• 10.10 Conclusion
• References
• List of Contributors
• Index