Mobilizing Resources and Generating Competencies: The Remarkable Success of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Danish Business System FROM THE PUBLISHER
In the 1990s, almost all the professional debate on industrial policy and industrial competitiveness has focused on the role of large companies, hightech firms and basic technological innovations. This book aims at counterbalancing that perspective by emphasizing the role of small and mediumsized enterprises in the Danish business system. A general presentation of the new business systems framework is designed to make the reader understand the major institutional differences between the American, Japanese, German and other business systems. Highlighted are the distinctive properties of the Danish business system enabling SMEs to be economically and technologically viable. Seven case studies are presented, utilizing the new business systems framework. They cover a crosssection of industries and technologies, such as furniture, biotechnology, wind turbine technology, electrical equipment, pumps and valves.
FROM THE CRITICS
Economic & Industrial Democracy
...of great interest to readers inside as well as outside Denmark...[the book shows] that companies in the Danish business sector are internationally competitive despite their size...the authors have tracked down and illustrated a version of...'neo-industrial organizing', a way of organizing based on flexible entities with clearly different characteristics than those of traditional industry...The anthology is focused and kept together by a well-informed introduction and a comprehensive and forward-looking concluding chapter...well worth reading...
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