Upgrading Clusters and Small Enterprises in Developing Countries
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Building Competitiveness
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Cluster Upgrades
corporate social responsibility
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Develop Innovation Capacity
devils
economic
Economic Upgrading
environmental compliance strategies
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furniture
Furniture Clusters
getulio
Global Chains
global value chains
Hearing Points
Indian Software
Indian Software Industry
industrial policy analysis
Innovation Laboratories
labour standards improvement
local
Local Development
Local Productive Arrangement
Local State Attorney
LPS
Organic Coffee
productive
Public Attorney
SC
SME Cluster
SME cluster development case studies
SME Policy
social
Socially Upgrade
Soconusco Region
Software Clusters
State Secretary
sustainable production practices
Tamil Nadu
vargas
Wood Furniture
Product details
- ISBN 9780754672975
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Dec 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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SME's are acknowledged as effective sources of jobs and incomes, gaining an important position in the development agenda, subsequently 'cluster' policies were conceived as a framework to augment the effects of SMEs and to optimize resources used to support them. Based on case studies from Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia and India, this volume examines SME clusters and argues that unless they counteract common problems such as very low wages, poor working conditions, poor quality products and lack or environmental regulation, they will be pushed out of the market and so become unsustainable. This book suggests that the SME clusters currently being stretched should react by 'socially upgrading' in order to improve their innovation capacity, as well as social, environmental and labour standards. It puts forward conceptual frameworks which explain the way firms can upgrade: through markets, interaction among cluster members, through Corporate Social Responsibility and other such public policy, and through the better enforcement of regulation.
Oliveira, Jose Antonio Puppim de
