Recent development experience points to the way business can be the key to a dynamic small business sector, especially where those links are built on high trust co-operative relations.
This book reviews different types of small business network, illustrated by an international selection of case studies, including:
* Chinese family business networks
* ethinic minority business networks
* Japanese and South Korean business group networks
* Taiwan's subcontracting networks
* European industrial districts
Network promotion initiatives in Singapore, New Zealand, Scandinavia and the UK are each discussed to provide a comprehensive comparative assessment of small business networks.

• Small Firms and Network Economies 5
• Copyright 6
• Contents 7
• List of boxes 9
• List of figures and tables 11
• Preface 13
• List of Abbreviations 16
• 1 Introduction 17
  • Networks at the micro level 20
  • Networks at the macro level 36
  • Purpose and scope of the book 39
  • Outline of the book 45
• 2 Analysing networks 47
  • Networks – from the bottom up 48
  • Networks – from the top down 58