We explore the strategic adaptation by domestic firms subsequent to economic liberalization and industry deregulation in an emerging economy. We study the Indian auto components industry during a ten-year period (1992-2002), using the Prowess database complemented by in-depth interviews with...

The emergence, from the 1960s on, of a new spatial division of labor – with the old task-based division of labor within a firm taking on a spatial dimension, and comparative advantage increasingly shaping patterns of specialization by function/process as well as by sector/product – reflected...