Cultivating grass-roots for regional development in a globalising economy : innovation and entrepreneurship in organised markets

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Cultivating grass-roots for regional development in a globalising economy : innovation and entrepreneurship in organised markets

James Cécora

Ashgate, c1999

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Takes a strong position on a number of issues pertaining to the need to reorient priorities of economic development policies in accordance with the current, and widely misunderstood socio-economic framework of "globalization". In highlighting the significance of endogenous human capital for innovative entrepreneurship, the key to sustainable regional development, the work depicts basic socio-institutional and political problems in promoting it. These problems are compounded by the globalization processes. All signs point to a rapid and uncontrolled amassing of wealth and power by international corporate and financial oligarchies which have, to a great extent and with the help of neo-liberal economic policies, emancipated themselves from national and democratic control, and which have succeeded in superseding market forces by organizing and controlling the markets themselves. In view of trends increasing interregional socio-economic disparities induced by globalization, the need to "tame" globalization in the interest of sustainable regional employment and development is addressed.

目次

  • Part 1 Goals and policies for regional development - a critical view from the grass-roots: encouraging "spontaneous combustion" of entrepreneurship
  • personal factors in self-employment and enterprising
  • general concepts in regional economics and development policy
  • current role of the state. Part 2 The global economy - the sea on which national and regional economies sail: facts and figures illustrating the rapidity of globalization
  • consequences for national, regional and rural economic policy-making
  • differentiating targets groups as agents of regional development. Part 3 Behavioural dynamics at the grass-root level - innovation and entrepreneurship as functions of personality, social structures and cultural configurations: genesis of enterprise and innovation
  • defining "entrepreneurs" (and "innovators") by traits
  • defining "entrepreneurs" (and "innovators") by functions
  • recognizing effects of social structures
  • recognizing effects of culture. Part 4 Individual actors - personal factors in innovative behaviour and enterprise: personality - traits, functions, motives and dispositions to act of "entrepreneurs", "innovators" and "adopters"
  • the family household and socialization of individuals
  • the individual's role, identity, values and attitudes as behavioural determinants. Part 5 Contexts - socio-cultural embeddedness and its implications for opportunities for and constraits on innovative behaviour and enterprise: socio-structural features of "innovative environments"
  • cultural configurations and patterns of behaviour
  • cultural specificities in awareness and use of time as an example
  • culture - a force of social cohesion, but also of exclusion
  • differentiating between cultures and nations
  • cultural impacts on organizations, innovation and enterprise
  • power structures
  • social networks and peer groups
  • communication and information flow. Part 6 Summary and conclusions on policies for sustaining grass-root fertility in regional economies.

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