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Medientyp:
E-Book
Titel:
Corporate Germany between Globalization and Regional Place Dependence
:
Business Restructuring in the Ruhr Area
Enthält:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Putting Business Restructuring in Context: Globalization, the Crisis of the German Model and Rhineland Capitalism; 2 Situating Business Strategies: Institutions and Regulation; 3 Scaling Business Strategies: Globalization, Place Dependence and Institutional Distance; 4 Globalization, 'Americanization' and the Changing Corporate Power Geometry; 5 The Territorialization of Ruhr Conglomerates: Regional Engagement and Place Dependence
6 The Ruhr Mittelstand: The Institutional Limits to Restructuring in Space7 The Regional Responses by Mittelstand Firms: Falling Back on 'Tested and Tried Relations', Transmission of Pressure and Systemic Change; 8 Making the (Re)connections: Governance Dilemmas, Discursive Regulation and the Scaling of Organizational Space; Appendixes; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-250) and index
Beschreibung:
Christian Berndt investigates how selected corporate actors in German small and medium-sized enterprises and in large companies respond to globalisation and the apparent crisis of the German model. By exploring the role of economic and non-economic factors in shaping business strategies he argues that, rather than simply being formal opposites, forces of dynamic change and irrational persistence are intertwined