Corporate Germany Between Globalization and Regional Place Dependence

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

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   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

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   Pages 190-205

10. Back Matter

    Pages 206-257

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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.

• capitalism
• globalization
• Institution
• Mittelstand
• organization
• restructuring

• Lehrstuhl für Kulturgeographie, Katholische Universität Eichstätt, Germany

  Christian Berndt

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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