Upgrading clusters and small enterprises in developing countries/ environmental, labor, innovation and social issues edited by Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira

Contents: Preface; Introduction: social upgrading among small firms and clusters, Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira; Seeking the high road to Jepara: challenges for economic and social upgrading in Indonesian wood furniture clusters, Anne Caroline Posthuma; Environmental upgrading of industrial clusters: understanding their connections with global chains in the Brazilian furniture sector, Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira; Social upgrading in agriculture-based clusters: common lessons from cases in Asia and Latin America, Octavio Damiani; Small firms in the Indian software clusters: building global competitiveness, Aya Okada; Understanding incentives for clustered firms to control pollution: the case of the jeans laundries in Toritama, Pernambuco, Brazil, Mansueto Almeida; Social technology for mobilization of local productive arrangements: a proposal for applicability, Ana Silvia Rocha Ipiranga, Maria Vilma Coelho Moreira Faria and MAnica Alves Amorim; Conclusions: lessons from the cases, Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira;