1st Edition
Industrial Innovation, Networks, and Economic Development Informal Information Sharing in Low-Technology Clusters in India
By Anant Kamath
Copyright 2015
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
180 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book offers an innovative examination of how ‘low–technology’ industries operate. Based on extensive fieldwork in India, the book fuses economic and sociological perspectives on information sharing by means of informal interaction in a low-technology cluster in a developing country. In doing so, the book sheds new light on settings where economic relations arise as emergent properties of... Read more
1. Introduction and Outline 2. A Simulation Model of Informal Information Sharing under Complex Social Relations 3. From Modelling to Empirical Study 4. Informal Information Sharing in a Universal Affinity Setting: Empirical Study of a Coir Cluster 5. A Network Study of Two Handloom Weavers’ Clusters 6. Community Social Capital and Inherited Cohesive Networks 7. Conclusions and Policy Lessons Appendix – The Saliyars of Balaramapuram
Biography
Anant Kamath is currently faculty at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India.
