Global Economic Crisis and Local Economic Development

Jason Begley is Research Fellow at Centre for Business in Society, and is Head of the Motor Industry Observatory (MIO), Coventry University, UK.Dan Coffey is Graduate School Director and Senior Lecturer at Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, UK.Tom Donnelly is Professor of Automotive Business at Coventry University Business School, Coventry University, UK.Carole Thornley is Emeritus Professor of Employment and Public Policy at University of Keele, UK.

• 1. Introduction Jason Begley, Dan Coffey, Tom Donnelly, and Carole Thornley 2. Creating Local Economic Resilience: co-operation, innovation and firms’ absorptive capacity Jonathan Michie and Christine Oughton 3. Global Economic Crises and local fortunes:the case of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Rupert Waters and Helen Smith 4. Regional Capabilities and Industrial Resiliency:specialization and diversification dynamics in Lowell, Massachusetts Michael H. Best 5. From recession to re-industrialization: a case study of employment changes in North Carolina Ian Taplin and Minh-Trang Thi Nguyen 6. Institutional Change, Industrial Logics and Internationalization:growth of the auto and IT sectors in India Anthony D’Costa 7. A System Abandoned:20 years of management, corporate governance and labour market reforms in Japan Holger Bungsche 8. China and the Global Recession Jason Begley and Tom Donnelly 9. North American and European Responses to crisis in the motor vehicle industry James Rubenstein 10. Addressing ‘Strategic Failure’: widening the public interest in the UK financial and energy sectors J.R. Branston, Keith G. Cowling, Philip R. Tomlinson and J.R. Wilson