Cluster-Based Industrial Development:
KAIZEN Management for MSE Growth in Developing Countries
Published on 1. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVII, 264 pages
978-1-349-48100-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book attempts to provide an effective strategy for industrial development based on the KAIZEN management training experiments conducted in Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Vietnam, and Tanzania. We focus on micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in industrial clusters, because clusters consisting of MSEs are ubiquitous and have high potential to grow.
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Edition
1st ed. 2014
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
XVII, 264 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
331 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-48100-2 (9781349481002)
DOI
10.1057/9781137385116
Schweitzer Classification
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T. Sonobe | K. Otsuka
Cluster-Based Industrial Development:
KAIZEN Management for MSE Growth in Developing Countries
Book
11/2014
Palgrave Macmillan
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Persons
Tetsushi Sonobe and Keijiro Otsuka are Professors of Economics at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo. They received their PhD from Yale University and the University of Chicago, respectively. They are co-authors of Cluster-Based Industrial Development: An East Asian Model (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and Cluster-Based Industrial Development: A Comparative Study of Asia an Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Content
1. Introduction PART I: MANAGEMENT, INNOVATIONS, AND ENTERPRISE GROWTH 2. Innovation and Cluster Development 3. Management and Innovations PART II: IMPACTS OF MANAGEMENT TRAINING 4. The Large but Varying Effects of Basic Management Training in a Metalworking Cluster in Kumasi, Ghana 5. Improved Performance of Small but Trained Firms in a Metalworking Cluster in Nairobi, Kenya 6. Effects of Classroom and Onsite Training in a Metalworking Cluster in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 7. Increasing Interests in Management Training in a Knitwear Village in Hatay, Vietnam 8. Spillover Effects of Management Training in a Garment Cluster in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 9. Management Training for Micro Entrepreneurs in a Garment Cluster in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia PART III: TOWARDS A STRATEGY FOR MSE DEVELOPMENT 10. New Industrial Policy: KAIZEN Management Training as a Key to Cluster-Based Development