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Global Supply Chains in Chinese IndustrializationPart of Book Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century
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Innovation Capacity and Economic DevelopmentPart of Journal Special Issue Southern Growth Engines and Technology Giants
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Should Africa Industrialize?Part of Book Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century
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Entrepreneurship, Development and the Spatial ContextPart of Book Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
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Human and Social Capital in Entrepreneurship in Developing CountriesPart of Book Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
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Interplay of Human and Social Capital in Entrepreneurship in Developing CountriesThis paper discusses the characteristics and determinants of entrepreneurial behaviour in Uganda. It is based on a recent survey of urban and rural entrepreneurs, executed in May 2008. The main dependent variables are business success, gestation...
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Early International Entrepreneurship in ChinaWe use data on 3,948 Chinese firms obtained from the World Bank’s Investment Climate Private Enterprise Survey to investigate early international entrepreneurship (international new ventures) in China. The extent of early international...
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Determinants of Industrial Embeddedness :Recent developments in policy initiatives as well as some current practical events have combined to put the spotlight on the issue of industrial embeddedness in sub-Saharan Africa. Though extant research documents some stylized facts, as determinants...
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Network Externalities and Cooperative NetworksPart of Book Ownership and Governance of Enterprises
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Network Externalities and Cooperative NetworksPart of Book Ownership and Governance of Enterprises
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New Institutional Arrangements for Product Innovation in Silicon ValleyPart of Book Ownership and Governance of Enterprises
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Information, Incentives, and Option ValuePart of Journal Special Issue WIDER Symposium on Adaptive Efficiency and Evolving Diversity of Enterprise Ownership and Governance
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Employment effects of joining global production networksIs the emphasis placed in trade and industry policy-making in developing countries on the share of domestic value-added (‘value-added ratio’) in exports consistent with the objective of achieving economic development through an export-oriented...
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Context and Policies for the Transformation and Growth of SMEsThis paper analyses the Hungarian experience with SMEs development by highlighting the factors and policies that explain the sector features and dynamics and utilizes this experience to suggest an interpretation of the striking differences with...
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Entrepreneurship, Development, and the Spatial ContextEntrepreneurship has been a topical issue in the business administration literature, but in the past decade a wave of interest can be observed on the role of entrepreneurship in the economic growth literature. This paper aims to highlight the various...
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Linkages, Access to Finance and the Performance of Small-Scale Enterprises in KenyaMicro- and small-scale enterprises (MSEs) have become important players in the Kenyan economy, but at the same time they continue to face constraints that limit their development. Lack of access to financial services is one of the main constraints...
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Sectoral Engines of Growth in South AfricaManufacturing has traditionally been regarded in the development literature as having special ‘growth-pulling’ or ‘growth-enhancing’ properties. The share of manufacturing in GDP has been declining slightly over time in South Africa, while that of...
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Economic Proximity and Technology FlowsIn less than a decade after the end of the apartheid, South Africa has intensified its economic ties with its African neighbours to become one of the top-ten investors and trading partners of many African countries, displacing companies from the...
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Developing and Harnessing Software Technology in the SouthSoftware technology is gaining prominence in national information technology (IT) strategies due to its huge potential for socioeconomic development, particularly through the support it provides in the productive sectors of the economy, delivery of...
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Foreign Direct Investment from China, India and South Africa in Sub-Saharan AfricaThe burgeoning literature on outward foreign direct investment from emerging markets has largely focused on analysing the motives of investors as reported by parent companies. This paper, instead, focuses on firm-level investments originating from...
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Competing in the Digital Economy?This paper explores the current state of play and likely future direction of business-to-business electronic commerce in the South African manufacturing sector. The empirical evidence presented draws on 120 firm-level interviews, and 31 personal...
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An Endogenous Group Formation Theory of Co-operative NetworksThis paper develops a theory of endogenous league formation and considers its implications for policy in developing countries. We generalize from features of the two most prominent European co-op leagues, Mondragón and La Lega, to develop the first...
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Understanding the Silicon Valley PhenomenaThis paper analyzes the ‘Silicon Valley model’ as a novel economic institution in the domain of technological product system innovation such as computers. We focus on the information structural relationship as well as governance relationships between...
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Determinants of Industrial EmbeddednessRecent developments in policy initiatives as well as some current practical events have combined to put the spotlight on the issue of industrial embeddedness in sub-Saharan Africa. Though extant research documents some stylized facts, as determinants...
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Should Africa Industrialize?Africa should industrialize. Without structural change it cannot sustain recent growth. Economies with more diverse and sophisticated industrial sectors tend to grow faster. But since 1980 Africa has deindustrialized. The paper shows that between...
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The Impacts of Knowledge Interaction with Manufacturing Clients on KIBS Firms Innovation BehaviourKnowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) have been posited to play a critical role as innovation agent and knowledge broker in the new economy. While a substantial part of the literature on KIBS stresses their function as an innovation agent to...
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Are Spatial Networks of Firms Random?We present a new approach for the empirical investigation of agglomeration patterns. We examine the clustering of manufacturing firms by identifying patterns of spatial network formation that deviate from randomly generated networks. Using firm-level...
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Global Supply Chains in Chinese IndustrializationChina has undergone remarkable economic growth spearheaded by industrialization. Chinese industry demands a wide variety of raw materials in increasing amounts in order to manufacture all kinds of products. Industrial demand exceeds domestic supply...
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The Benefits and Costs of Group AffiliationThis paper investigates the benefits and associated agency costs of using internal capital markets through affiliating with groups using data of two thousand firms from nine East Asian economies between 1994-6. We find that mature and slow-growing...
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Collective Action and Bilateral Interaction in Ghanaian Entrepreneurial NetworksThis paper focuses on the networks of business-related contacts that are built and maintained by manufacturing entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa. It describes the various functions that such networks perform, explaining why each function is...
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Innovation Capacity and Economic DevelopmentBoth China and India, the emerging giants in Asia, have achieved significant economic development in recent years. China has enjoyed a high annual GDP growth rate of 10 per cent and India has achieved an annual GDP growth rate of 6 per cent since...
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Social Capital, Network Effects and Savings in Rural VietnamInformation failures are a major barrier to formal financial saving in low income countries. Households in rural communities often lack the information necessary to set up formal deposit accounts or are uncertain about the returns to saving formally...
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