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Corporate Germany between Globalization and Regional Place Dependence : Business Restructuring in the Ruhr Area / by Christian Berndt

Berndt, Christian, 1967-

London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

Online-Ressource (XVIII, 257 p, online resource)

Englisch

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;

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-250) and index

Erscheint auch als: (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-230-50828-6

978-1-349-42269-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

610649655; NLM01091143X

OCoLC: 845617812     

OCoLC: 1018223780 (aus SWB)     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang beim Produzenten (Lizenzangabe: Nationallizenz)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1057/9780230508286

QG 270  | RD 45648      Ähnliche Literatur

JZ1317.5-1324 ; HD2860.15.R84B47 2001

338.7/0943/55 ; 330 ; 327.1

bicssc: JFFS ; bisacsh: POL033000

*Ruhrgebiet ; Unternehmen ; Restrukturierung ; Internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit ; Regionale Wirtschaftskooperation      Zum Register

*Ruhrgebiet ; Regionalpolitik ; Restrukturierung ; Klein- und Mittelbetrieb      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Political science ; Political Science and International Relations ; Ruhr (Germany : Region) -- Economic conditions ; Corporate reorganizations -- Germany -- Ruhr (Region) ; Political economy ; Management science ; International economics ; Globalization ; Economics ; Sociology ; International economic relations.

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