The institutions of local development / edited by Fabio Sforzi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sforzi, Fabio.

Series:

IGU series on local development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial promotion--Case studies.

Industrial promotion.

Economic development projects--Case studies.

Economic development projects.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

x, 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2003]

Contents:

Part I Place-Specificity of Competitiveness

1 Local Embeddedness and International Competitiveness

The Case of the Swedish Music Cluster / Daniel Hallencreutz, Per Lundequist, Anders Malmberg 3

2 The Local Embeddedness of Ethnic Entrepreneurship

Over- and Under-Embeddedness in the Israeli Arab Economy / Michael Sofer, Izhak Schnell 29

3 High-Technology Clustering in Cambridge (UK) / Philip Cooke, Robert Huggins 51

Part II Trust Shaping Collective Action

4 The Relations of Co-operation in Group Enterprises and Associations in Ghana

Exploration of Issues of Trust and Power / Fergus Lyon 75

5 Social Capital and Development

Issues of Institutional Design and Trust in Mexican Group-Based Microfinance / Marina Della Giusta 93

6 Constructing Alternative Circuits of Value

The Case of Local Currency Systems (LCSs) / Roger Lee, Andrew Leyshon, Theresa Aldridge, Nigel Thrift, Jane Tooke, Colin Williams 115

Part III Social Capital in the Pathways of Local Development

7 Social Capital in the Development of the Agro Nocerino-Sarnese / Anna Bull, Matteo Frate 141

8 The Emerging of Different Patterns of Local Development in the Third Italy / Luigi Burroni 175.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754632474

OCLC:

50314686