Market Platforms, Industrial Clusters And Small Business Dynamics
—Specialized Markets in China—
Co-publication with Other Foreign Publishers
Edward Elgar
The emergence of specialized markets has profoundly improved the means of market access, enriched the driving forces of value chains, and changed the business environment for small firms in the developing world. This ground-breaking book summarizes the experience of specialized markets in a systematic manner.
■ Market Platforms, Industrial Clusters And Small Business Dynamics —Specialized Markets in China—
■ by DING Ke
■ ￡75.00
■ 238pp
■ 2012
■ ISBN978-1-78100-627-6
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Specialized markets and small business dynamics in China
2. Analytical framework
3. The general situation in the “Province of Markets”
4. Local government and platform governance in Yiwu
5. The specialized market system in the daily necessities industry: an observation from Yiwu Market
6. Overseas linkages of specialized markets
7. Producer–distributor relationships in Yiwu Market
8. Local government and inter-platform competition
9. The logic of quantitative expansion and qualitative upgrading in the market platform mode cluster
10. The typology of apparel clusters in China
11. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index