Embedded Enterprise and Social Capital

International Perspectives
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-73438-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 219 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

This title was first published in 2002. The concept of embeddedness refers to the social construction of inter-firm relationships and the enmeshing of economic relationships within broader social structures and relationships in particular places. Previous research has suggested embedding is the best way to generate local growth and social capital and has focused on SMEs in Europe and North America, although the existing model is being more widely adopted now. This volume is the first to examine the complex processes of embedding in this wider context. Bringing together a broad range of case studies from the developed and developing world which address the nature of embeddedness from various perspectives, it not only questions the universality of the current model and the policy initiatives it has spawned but also provides a much wider understanding of embeddedness. It does so by discussing the social dimensions more fully and by throwing light on the spatial and temporal ambiguity of the concept and its inadequate treatment of power.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leonard, Simon

Taylor, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Approaching embeddedness, Michael Taylor and Simon Leonard; Embeddedness and innovation, Ron Boschma, Jan Lambooy and Veronique Schutjens; Rethinking institutions and embeddedness in a third world context, Giles Mohan; Supply chains, embeddedness and the restructuring of Argentina’s tanning industry, Kjersti Wølneberg; Going places? Reflections on embedding and disembedding in agriculture and horticulture under neoliberalism: the example of Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, David Hayward, Christina Stringer and Richard Le Heron; Weakening ties: the embeddedness of small UK electronics firms, Sara Openshaw and Michael Taylor; Enterprise embeddedness and industrial innovation in Spain: an overview, Montserrat Pallares-Barbera; Local embeddedness in global financial services: Australian evidence in ’the end of geography’, Pierre Agnes; Local embeddedness and service firms: evidence from Southern England, Paul Search and Michael Taylor; Embedded project-production in magazine publishing: a case of self-exploitation?, Carol Ekinsmyth; Local embeddedness, ’institutional thickness’ and the state regulation of local labour markets, Simon Leonard; Diasporic embeddedness and Asian women entrepreneurs in the UK, Irene Hardill, Parvati Raghuram and Adam Strange; Over- and Under-embeddedness: failures in developing mixed embeddedness among Israeli entrepreneurs, Michael Sofer and Izhak Schnell; Enterprise, embeddedness and exclusion: business relationships in a small island developing economy, Michael Taylor; The local embeddedness of firms in Turkish industrial districts: the changing roles of networks in local development, Ayda Eraydin; Understanding embeddedness, Michael Taylor and Simon Leonard; Index. Name Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Simon Leonard is an economic, urban and social human geographer, completing his PhD studies at the London School of Economics and working in research and academic employment at University College London, the Greater London Council Economic Policy Group and the London Research Centre. Between 1992 and 2016 he was a lecturer in the former Department of Geography at the University of Portsmouth, and Head of Department for the last nine years of that period.

Michael Taylor was one of the world’s foremost Economic Geographers and his work helped shape the study of manufacturing industries, local economic development and geographical approaches to theorising firms in place and across space. His research both shaped academic debate and informed policy development in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. He published over 150 papers and book chapters and 15 books. He held the position of Chair of the IGU Commission on “The Dynamics of Economic Space” from 2008. He retired from the Chair of Human Geography at the University of Birmingham in 2011 and was awarded the position of Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia until the time of his death in 2021. Mike left behind a highly influential legacy of research and publications.