Small firms and local economic networks : the death of the local economy?

Author(s)

Bibliographic Information

Small firms and local economic networks : the death of the local economy?

James Curran and Robert Blackburn

Paul Chapman Publishing, c1994

Available at  / 29 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book examines the relationships between small businesses, large businesses and their local economies. The wide-ranging examination is based on data collected from over 400 businesses in seven contrasting localities in the United Kingdom. All the owner-managers and large organization representatives were interviewed face-to-face and background data was collected from numerous other individuals and sources. The authors' findings have profound implications for theory and policy. They question the applicability of models of the changing economy such as 'industrial districts' idealized in much of the recent literature. The results also have implications for those agencies based on the locality attempting to reach small businesses as well as government policies attempting economic development.

Table of Contents

Local Economies Localities and Small Firms Inter-Firm Linkages and Local Economies A New Study of Local Economies Small Firms, Their Owners and Relations with Localities Large Firms, Localities and Small Firms Enterprise and Locality in the 1990s

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

Page Top