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Small and medium scale enterprises in India : infirmities and asymmetries in industrial clusters /
"Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SME) have found more interest in the last few years, whereas industrialization is no longer seen as a simple way of development. This book analyses how SME clusters emerge in a developing economy. Using India as a case study, it addresses one central questio...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia (2005) ;
117. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Small and Medium Enterprises in India; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; List of abbreviations and acronyms; 1 Introduction; Trends in growth and employment in India; Trends in global manufacturing; Cluster of small firms; The plan; 2 Spatial organization of production: contesting themes; The context; Region as a determinant in production; Spatial organization of production; The rise of 'small' in policy discourse; Knowledge intensity and industrial clusters; Dynamics of power relations; 3 Shifts in policy: SSI sector to SME cluster.
- Rationale for protective policiesReservation policy: a brief appraisal; The new context of liberalized regime; Beyond the small/large framework; Industrial clusters in India; 4 Horizontal expansion or fragmentation? A tale of artisanal clusters; Introduction; Footwear cluster in Kolkata; Surgical instruments cluster in Baruipur; Concluding remarks; 5 Foundries in Howrah: impediments in institutions and organizations; Institutions and organizations; Trajectory of growth: past and present; Is the labor responsible?; Changes in backward and forward linkages.
- X-inefficiency and flexible labor delays 'creative destruction'Absence of appropriate institutions; Concluding remarks; 6 Garments cluster in NCR: fluid labor and footloose industry; Garments industry: a brief overview; Introducing the NCR garments cluster; Horizontal expansion by multiple plants; Footloose industry and its forward linkages; Relying on fluid labor; Industrial estate or cluster?; 7 Tiruppur knitwear cluster: global links and local networks; Introduction; Composition of the cluster; Dense network of subcontracting; Boundaries of social auditing and labor standards.
- Export markets and impacts of external shocksCollective action and associational voice; 8 Export enclave within a natural cluster: Agra, a different story; Agra cluster in retrospect; A brief overview; No great technology distance between large and small firms; Challenges to reproducing skills; Why are big firms always exporters?; Export enclave within artisanal cluster; 9 FDI in the automobile sector: myth of creation and diffusion of knowledge; Introduction; Emerging patterns of production organization; FDI and diffusion of technology; Concluding remarks.
- 10 Dynamics of size distribution: explaining self-exploitative fragmentationSize distribution of firms: contesting themes; Stylized facts from field survey; Self-exploitative fragmentation: the model; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.