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World Market Transformation: Inside the German Fur Capital Leipzig 1870 and 1939 book cover

1st Edition

World Market Transformation Inside the German Fur Capital Leipzig 1870 and 1939

By Robrecht Declercq Copyright 2017
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge
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To the surprise of many, regionally embedded clusters of small to medium sized businesses have continued to exist in spite of industrialisation and mass production. While scholars have discovered that the advantages of embeddedness in terms of industrialisation were situated in interfirm cooperation and conflict resolving mechanisms, it is far less clear how changing historical circumstances on... Read more

Part 1: Local Business Systems and Global Trade

1. The Leipzig Fur Capital as a Local Business System

2. The Making of the Fur Capital Leipzig (1850-1914)

3.  Linking the Capital to the Outside World

Part 2: Finding World Market Alternatives 1903-1939


4. The Karakul Farming Experiment in South West Africa (1903-1933)

5.  Resource Substitution and World Market Isolation: The First World War as a Testing Field for Interfirm Cooperation (1914-1920)

6. Fur Farming in the Interwar Period: A Source for World Market Retreat?



Part 3: World Market Restructuring and the Fur Capital (1920-1939)

7. Business as Usual? Adaptation to World Market Restructuring, 1919-1925 
8.  Market Engineering as a Collective Enterprise (1921-1930)
9. Promoting the Capital. The Leipzig International Fur Exhibition and Congress in 1930

Part 4: Epilogue

10.  Economic Depression, Soviet Plan Economy and Antisemitism: the Limits of Collective Action (1931-1939)
11. Conclusion

Biography

Robrecht Declercq is Postdoctoral Researcher connected to the research group Communities, Connections, and Comparisons (CCC) and the History Department of the Ghent University, Belgium.

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