Entrepreneurial Networks in Local Industrial Development

Since the early 1970s, the nature of production has
changed quite fundamentally which caused new
organizational forms and complex spatial behaviors.
Networking that has emerged as a new perspective on
the organization of production help greatly to
understand the success of businesses, thus the
resurgence of regional economies. This book presents
the importance of networks in the context of local
industrial development and displays a developing
country experience. In this context, two localities
from Turkey; Denizli and Gaziantep that have
achieved a breakthrough in local industrial
development is analyzed comparatively on network
basis. Throughout the study, the entrepreneurs are
considered as the vital actors of networks, and the
economic and social embeddedness of their network
relations are analyzed by emphasizing the spatial
dimensions. A new set of empirical evidence on
entrepreneurial networks in local industrial
development should be especially useful to
researchers in local/regional development, socio-
economic and spatial fields or anyone else who may
be interested on networks.

Autorentext

Çigdem Varol is Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at Gazi University, Ankara. Her research interests include the theory and empirics of regional planning, local/regional economic development, local production systems, clusters, socio-economic geography, entrepreneurship and network studies.

Klappentext

Since the early 1970s, the nature of production has changed quite fundamentally which caused new organizational forms and complex spatial behaviors. Networking that has emerged as a new perspective on the organization of production help greatly to understand the success of businesses, thus the resurgence of regional economies. This book presents the importance of networks in the context of local industrial development and displays a developing country experience. In this context, two localities from Turkey; Denizli and Gaziantep that have achieved a breakthrough in local industrial development is analyzed comparatively on network basis. Throughout the study, the entrepreneurs are considered as the vital actors of networks, and the economic and social embeddedness of their network relations are analyzed by emphasizing the spatial dimensions. A new set of empirical evidence on entrepreneurial networks in local industrial development should be especially useful to researchers in local/regional development, socio-economic and spatial fields or anyone else who may be interested on networks.