Local enterprises in the global economy : issues of governance and upgrading / edited by Hubert Schmitz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Globalized localities : introduction / Hubert Schmitz -- Regions in the 'world economic triangle' / Dirk Messner -- Making sense of global standards / Khalid Nadvi and Frank Wältring -- Governance in global value chains / John Humphrey and Hubert Schmitz -- The underground revolution in the Sinos Valley : a comparison of upgrading in global and national value chains / Luiza Bazan and Lizbeth Navas-Alemán -- How globalization affects Italian industrial districts : the case of Brenta / Roberta Rabellotti -- Upgrading in the tile industry of Italy, Spain and Brazil : insights from cluster and value chain analysis / Jörg Meyer-Stamer, Claudio Maggi and Silene Seibel -- Local upgrading strategies in response to global challenges : the surgical instrument cluster of Tuttlingen, Germany / Gerhard Halder -- Clustering and upgrading in global value chains : the Taiwanese personal computer industry / Chikashi Kishimoto -- Global quality standards and technological upgrading in the Brazilian auto-components industry / Ruy Quadros -- The effect of global standards on local producers : a Pakistani case study / Khalid Nadvi -- Paradoxes and ironies of locational policy in the new global economy / Jörg Meyer-Stamer -- Chain governance and upgrading : taking stock / John Humphrey and Hubert Schmitz.