Linking industries across the world : processes of global networking / edited by Claes G. Alvstam, Eike W. Schamp.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Building global institutions / Boris Braun --'Fragmenting the chain' / Charles Mather -- Global networks as open gates for regional innovation systems / Ayda Eraydin -- Local and global networks of innovation / Sam Ock Park -- From technology transfer to knowledge transfer / Norbert Buz -- Internal networking in the globalising firm / Martina Fuchs -- Transnational corporations and the postsocialist economy / Boleslaw Domaki -- From transfer to hybridisation? / Jinn-yuh Hsu -- Contrasting experiences with business networking in a transition economy / Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz -- Industrial clusters in China / Jici Wang and Xin Tong -- Cross-national ethnic networks in financial services / Shuang Yann Wong --'The region is local' / Christian M. Rogerson.