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Tables of Contents for Linking Local and Global Economies
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Illustrations
ix
 
Contributors
xi
 
Foreword
xiii
 
Acknowledgements
xv
 
Abbreviations
xvi
 
The ties that bind: small and medium-sized enterprises in the global economy
1
14
Carlo Pietrobelli
Arni Sverrisson
PART I Theoretical approaches
15
58
Local and global commodity chains
17
19
Arni Sverrisson
Conceptualising technological capability building in SME clusters in developing countries
36
20
Marjolein Caniels
Henny Romijn
A Marxian--Schumpeterian--Veblenian theory of small industrial enterprise
56
17
Bernard D'Mello
PART II Exports, enterprise growth and learning
73
58
Productivity, international competitiveness and technology policy in Latin America
75
8
Jorge Katz
The internationalisation of small and medium-sized firms in Italy during the 1990s
83
24
Roberto Basile
Anna Giunta
Jeffrey B. Nugent
Export behaviour, firm size and productivity growth in Italy
107
24
Davide Castellani
PART III Global and local links: mutual support or divided attention?
131
74
Upgrading and technological regimes in industrial clusters in Italy and Taiwan
133
27
Carlo Pietrobelli
The East Asian crisis and beyond: new perspectives for linkages between SMEs and TNCs?
160
10
Philippe Regnier
Can Nanjing's concentration of IT companies become an innovative cluster?
170
15
Meine Pieter Van Dijk
The garment boom in northern Mexico: role and opportunities for rural SMEs
185
20
Robine Van Dooren
PART IV Opportunities, obstacles and global rules
205
49
Market integration and production systems: SMEs in the Euro-Mediterranean region
207
13
Andrea Gallina
Do small and medium-sized enterprises benefit from patent protection?
220
20
Carlos M. Correa
Global regulatory imperatives and small firms: the case of Indian pharmaceuticals
240
14
Keshab Das
Tara S. Nair
Index
254