The Economics of Networks

by Casson, Mark; Giusta, Marina Della

• ISBN13: 9781847203656
• ISBN10: 1847203655
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-08
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Table of Contents

Introduction
Mayors Learning across Borders: The International Networks of Municipalities in East-Central Europe	p. 1
Global Linkages of Subnational Regions: Coastal Exports and International Networks	p. 13
Japanese Firms and the Decision to Invest Abroad: Business Groups and Regional Core Networks	p. 25
Interlocking Directorships and Trans-national Linkages within the British Empire, 1900-1930	p. 32
Private Games are too Dangerous	p. 46
An Economic Model of Inter-Firm Networks	p. 77
New Product Development and Product Supply within a Network Setting: The Chilled Ready-Meal Industry in the UK	p. 100
Regional Blocs or Global Markets? A World Accounting Approach to Analyze Trade and Financial Linkages	p. 121
National Differences in Entrepreneurial Networking	p. 147
Information Exchange and the Robustness of Organizational Networks	p. 165
Information, Communication Technology, and Business in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of a Finnish Merchant House	p. 171
Understanding Mexican Migration to the United States	p. 186
Networks of Information, Markets, and Institutions in the Rise of London as a Financial Centre	p. 218
Why Social Networks are Different from other Types of Networks	p. 238
Capital Networks in the Sheffield Region, 1850-1885	p. 246
International Migration, Domestic Work, and Care Work: Undocumented Latina Migrants in Israel	p. 271
Fortune, Risk, and Remittances: An Application of Option Theory to Participation in Village-Based Migration Networks	p. 294
Can Women's Social Networks Migrate?	p. 324
Topology of the World Trade Web	p. 338
World City Networks and Hierarchies, 1977-1997: An Empirical Analysis of Global Air Travel Links	p. 342
Telecommunications and the Changing Geographies of Knowledge Transmission in the Late 20th Century	p. 365
Weak Ties, Strong Ties: Network Principles in Mexican Migration	p. 383
Name Index	p. 393
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