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Lean and mean: the changing landscape of corporate power in the age of flexibility
Bennett Harrison
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page ix)
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PART I: OVERVIEW
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1 BIG FIRMS, SMALL FIRMS, NETWORK FIRMS (page 3)
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PART II: REASSESSING THE IDEA THAT SMALL FIRMS ARE THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DRIVERS
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2 THE MYTH OF SMALL FIRMS AS JOB GENERATORS (page 37)
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3 ARE SMALL FIRMS THE TECHNOLOGY LEADERS? (page 53)
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4 THE EVOLUTION (AND DEVOLUTION?) OF THE ITALIAN INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS (page 75)
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5 IS SILICON VALLEY AN INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT? (page 106)
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PART III: THE EMERGING SYSTEM OF GLOBALLY NETWORKED PRODUCTION
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6 "FLEXIBILITY" AND THE EMERGENCE OF LARGE FIRM-LED PRODUCTION NETWORKS (page 125)
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7 LARGE FIRM-CENTERED NETWORKED PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IN JAPAN AND EUROPE (page 150)
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8 INTERFIRM PRODUCTION NETWORKS IN THE UNITED STATES (page 172)
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9 THE DARK SIDE OF THE FLEXIBLE PRODUCTION (page 189)
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PART IV: RETHINKING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY
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10 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY IN A WORLD OF LEAN AND MEAN PRODUCTION (page 219)
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Notes (page 247)
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Index (page 310)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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CS | 25.2 (Mar. 1996): 262-264 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-3061%28199603%2925%3A2%3C262%3ALAMTCL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G |
ILRR | 49.1 (Oct. 1995): 183-185 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2524930 |
AAAPSS | 541. Small Wars (Sep. 1995): 215-217 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1048315 |
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Published: c1994
Publisher: Basic Books
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