Local Economies in Turmoil

ARNI SVERRISSON is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Stockholm. He is author of Evolutionary Technical Change and Flexible Mechanization: Entrepreneurship and Industrialization in Kenya and Zimbabwe, and edited Social Movements in Development: The Challenge of Globalization and Democratization (with Staffan Lindberg). In addition, he has published a large number of reports and articles on technological change in small enterprise networks, sustainable technology, digital image technologies and social network theory, which remain his main research interests. - MEINE PIETER VAN DIJK is Associate Professor at the Economic Faculty of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and the Institute for Housing and Urban Studies in Rotterdam. He is author of Burkina-Faso: le secteur informel de Ouagadougou. He edited Enterprise Clusters and Networks in Developing Countries (with R.Rabellotti) and Multilateralism versus Regionalism: Trade Issues after the Uruguay Round (with Sandro Sideri). He has in addition published a large number of books, articles and reports on development issues. His current research interests include enterprise clusters in developing countries, the problems of women entrepreneurs and the development of urban infrastructure.

• Introduction: Local Economies in Turmoil; A.Sverrisson & M.Pieter van Dijk PART ONE: ENTERPRISES AND ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES Adjusting to an Opening Economy: Three Industrial Clusters in Brazil; J.Meyer-Stamer Social Embeddedness: Families and Firms in Tanzania; P.Trulsson Financing Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Eastern Europe; D.Revoltella PART TWO: INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS AND NETWORKS Structural Adjustment and Cluster Advantages: A Case from Peru; E.J.Visser Innovation in Roof Tile and Copper Craft Clusters in Indonesia; H.Sandee & P.Rietveld Light Engineering Networks and Structural Adjustment in Zimbabwe; C.M.Halimana & A.Sverrisson PART THREE: THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT A Macroperspective on Small Enterprise Growth in Southern Africa; P.O.Pedersen Good Governance and Small Enterprises in Zimbabwe; M.P.van Dijk Economic Cultures and Industrial Development in the South; A.Sverrisson Conclusion: Research Issues after Structural Adjustment; A.Sverrisson & M.P.van Dijk Index