Decentralised production organisation and institutional transformation: large and small firm networks in Chile and Nicaragua
研究了智利和尼加拉瓜农业产业集群中，分散化生产网络如何通过制度安排和“边干边学”机制实现产业升级，对关注发展中国家中小企业竞争力提升的学者有参考价值。
This paper analyses changing production organisation and new governance that contribute to productive upgrading in developing economies. It discusses research conducted in Chile and Nicaragua, focused on agroindustrial clusters. Recent analyses of small firms in developing countries highlight the important presence of clusters, and local factors in building global competitiveness. This paper argues for an approach that focuses on the institutional arrangements to coordinate decentralised production networks. It emphasises the role of learning-by-monitoring as the key to successful adjustment in the face of liberalisation and globalisation. It identifies the institutional reshaping of relations between firms, and between the state and the economy. Copyright 2003, Oxford University Press.