Specialisation and Localised Learning - Mark Lorenzen

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The current development within the European furniture industry - a significant industry in terms of both turnover, employment, and trade - is an amazing case of simultaneous evolution and continuance. While preserving many of its structural characteristics, the industry has developed clear specialisation patterns between countries and regions. Thus, studies of the European furniture industry provide strong empirical evidence of how the same overall competitive conditions and market forces might result in quite differing organizational forms. The furniture industry also illustrate how national or regional institutions precondition and partly mould the development of an industry. Drawn from a recent international workshop on "Low-tech Competitiveness and Localised Learning", this book presents six carefully selected empirical studies on the European furniture industry which are used as an outset for addressing contemporary theoretical issues within the economics of organization. The book provides a comprehensiv...
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1998Uitgever: Handelshojskolens Forlag160 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 8716134125ISBN-13: 9788716134127

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