INDUSTRIAL REORGANIZATION IN DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES - FROM MODELS TO TRAJECTORIES

Authors
Citation
J. Humphrey, INDUSTRIAL REORGANIZATION IN DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES - FROM MODELS TO TRAJECTORIES, World development, 23(1), 1995, pp. 149-162
Citations number
42
Categorie Soggetti
Planning & Development",Economics
Journal title
ISSN journal
0305750X
Volume
23
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
149 - 162
Database
ISI
SICI code
0305-750X(1995)23:1<149:IRID-F>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
The success of Japanese industry and of some industries in the Emilia- Romagna region of Italy in the 1970s and 1980s has stimulated interest in new models of industrial organization. Interest in applying such m odels in developing countries is increasing rapidly. Evidence from dev eloping countries shows that models are a useful starting point, but t hat it is essential to consider the diversity of developing country ex periences and to understand the processes by which firms and sectors a re transformed. This paper focuses on the trajectories of change taken by firms which reorganize their production and by clusters of firms.