The Associational Economy: Introduction -- 1. The Institutions of Innovation -- 2. Firms as Laboratories: Re-inventing the Corporation -- 3. The Region as a Nexus of Learning Processes -- 4. Baden-Wurttemberg: The Evolution of a 'Model Region' -- 5. Emilia-Romagna: From Civic Culture to Global Networks -- 6. Wales: Innovating through Global-Local Interaction -- 7. The Basque Conundrum: Regional Autonomy and Economic Decline -- 8. Evolutionary Processes and Regional Practices
Summary
This text explores issues of corporate reorganization in the context of heightened global competition. It concludes that the associational economy may be the 'third way' between state and market co-ordination of modern economies
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-238) and index
