Trade and Structural Adjustment: Embracing Globalisation identifies the requirements for successful reallocation of labour and capital to more efficient uses in response to the emergence of new sources of competition, technological change and shifting consumer preferences. At the same time, it...

1 Cities and manufacturing : setting the scene -- 2. Manufacturing and urban development : a frame of analysis -- 3. Dortmund : metal-electro sector -- 4. Eindhoven : automotive industry -- 5. Munich : automotive industry -- 6. Ostrava : automotive industry -- 7. Paris : automotive industry --...

For over 20 years, the Brazilian economy has faced enormous challenges as a result of neoliberal structural reforms, economic stagnation and external crises, particularly after the Latin American crisis of the late 1990s to early 2000s and after 2014. Deep economic structural changes and...

1 The dynamic process of globalization 2 Global value chains 3 Volkswagen - lead firm and orchestrator 4 Participants from the advanced markets 5 Participants from Brazil and China 6 Toward a theory of network orchestration 7 Globalization and the challenge for development