World Market Transformation examines the robustness of district firms within the highly volatile international fur business. This book examines how firm embeddedness not only served to overcome challenges related to industrialisation, but also strengthened the abilities of cluster firms to deal with changing world market circumstances.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
