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Corporate Germany Between Globalization and Regional Place Dependence

Business Restructuring in the Ruhr Area

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Authors:
  1. Christian Berndt

    1. Lehrstuhl für Kulturgeographie, Katholische Universität Eichstätt, Germany

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Putting Business Restructuring in Context: Globalization, the Crisis of the German Model and Rhineland Capitalism

    • Christian Berndt
    Pages 1-14

  3. Situating Business Strategies: Institutions and Regulation

    • Christian Berndt
    Pages 15-42

  4. Scaling business strategies: Globalization, place dependence and institutional distance

    • Christian Berndt
    Pages 43-60

  5. Globalization, ‘Americanization’ and the Changing Corporate Power Geometry

    • Christian Berndt
    Pages 61-90

  6. The Territorialization of Ruhr Conglomerates: Regional Engagement and Place Dependence

    • Christian Berndt
    Pages 91-120

  7. The Ruhr Mittelstand: The Institutional Limits to Restructuring in Space

    • Christian Berndt
    Pages 121-150

  8. The Regional Responses by Mittelstand Firms: Falling Back on ‘Tried and Tested Relations’, Transmission of Pressure and Systemic Change

    • Christian Berndt
    Pages 151-189

  9. Making the (Re)connections: Governance Dilemmas, Discursive Regulation and the Scaling of Organizational Space

    • Christian Berndt
    Pages 190-205

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 206-257
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About this book

Christian Berndt investigates how selected corporate actors in German small and medium-sized enterprises and in large companies respond to globalisation and the apparent crisis of the German model. By exploring the role of economic and non-economic factors in shaping business strategies he argues that, rather than simply being formal opposites, forces of dynamic change and irrational persistence are intertwined.

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  • Lehrstuhl für Kulturgeographie, Katholische Universität Eichstätt, Germany

    Christian Berndt

About the author

CHRISTIAN BERNDT is Wissenschaftlicker Assistant at Katholische Universität Eichstäett, Germany. He undertook his PhD in Cambridge and has contributed a number of articles to economic and geographical journals.

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