Upgrading clusters and small enterprises in developing countries : environmental, labor, innovation and social issues

edited by Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira

1. Introduction : social upgrading among small firms and clusters / Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira -- 2. Seeking the high road to Jepara : challenges for economic and social upgrading in Indonesian wood furniture clusters / Anne Caroline Posthuma -- 3. Environmental upgrading of industrial clusters : understanding their connections with global chains in the Brazilian furniture sector / Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira -- 4. Social upgrading in agriculture-based clusters : common lessons from cases in Asia and Latin America / Octavio Damiani -- 5. Small firms in the Indian software clusters : building global competitiveness / Aya Okada -- 6. Understanding incentives for clustered firms to control pollution : the case of the jeans laundries in Toritama, Pernambuco, Brazil / Mansueto Almeida -- 7. Social technology for mobilization of local productive arrangements : a proposal for applicability / Ana Silvia Rocha Ipiranga, Maria Vilma Coelho Moreira Faria and Monica Alves Amorim -- 8. Conclusions : lessons from the cases / Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira.

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Year of publication:	2016
Other Persons:	Puppim de Oliveira, José Antonio (contributor)
Publisher:	London : Routledge,
Subject:	Entwicklungsländer \| Developing countries \| KMU \| SME \| Regionales Cluster \| Regional cluster \| Umweltmanagement \| Environmental management \| Arbeitsbedingungen \| Working conditions \| Innovationsmanagement \| Innovation management \| Corporate Social Responsibility \| Corporate social responsibility \| Wettbewerb \| Competition \| Innovation

Extent:	1 online resource (xii, 179 pages)
Series:	Ashgate economic geography series
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
ISBN:	978-1-315-54893-7 ; 978-1-317-00410-3 ; 978-1-317-00411-0 ; 978-0-7546-7297-5 ; 978-1-138-25996-6
Other identifiers:	10.4324/9781315548937 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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