Small Firms and Network Economies

Recent development experience points to the way businesses can be the key to a dynamic small business sector, especially where those links are built on high trust co-operative relations.This book reviews different types of small-business network, illustrated by an international selection of case studies, including:* Chinese family business networks* ethnic minority business networks* Japanese and South Korean business group networks* Taiwan's subcontracting networks * European industrial districts. Network promotion initiatives in Singapore, New Zealand, Scandanavia and the UK are each discussed to provide a comprehensive and comparative assessment of small business networks.