There is an enduring logic of industrial success that favours large firms (Chandler 1990).

More than 40 firms were interviewed in Kenya, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe in two industrial branches.

This difference in manufacturing's share reflects the changing industrial origin of Singaporean firms that engage in OFDI and the continuing importance of the manufacturing sector as a favoured industrial activity abroad.

Thus, well organized and well connected small firms, such as those in the successful industrial districts, can also compete in the international market place.

In the Industrial Development Law (enacted in 1986) further measures were taken to prevent excessive competition among domestic firms supplying both local and foreign markets.

Industrial production has been unchanged for the past two months, and utilization of industrial capacity has declined. And the monthly purchasing surveys conducted by the Institute for Supply Management now indicate weaker activity among service firms as well.

121. Responsibility for providing the training courses and internships lies with training institutes which call for tenders after having prepared their bids jointly with industrial firms.

Another convention which Panama has not ratified is the ILO Maternity Protection Convention (Revised), 1952 (No. 103), which applies to industrial firms and to non industrial and agricultural work, to women wage earners working at home and to women domestic employees.

Until now, bankruptcy has played a second tier role in reform efforts, even though bankruptcy law does for industrial firms much of what regulators want for financial firms. By restructuring a failed industrial firm s debts, saving its profitable businesses, and selling its loss making ones, bankruptcy can minimize a failed firm s knock on costs for its creditors and the economy as a whole.

We need firms. The firms have gone away.

Moreover, the fact that industrial policies have very often focused heavily on the growth of large scale manufacturing firms has also had adverse effects on the promotion of SMEs.

The development of an auto parts industry in the Nnewi region in Nigeria provides an illustration of how local entrepreneurs, starting from trading activities, succeeded in establishing a competitive industrial cluster by creating appropriate linkages, both with foreign firms (in Taiwan, Province of China) and with domestic firms, including supplier firms in the areas of smelting, glass making, etc. (Banji Oyelaran Oyeyinka, 1996)

Devaluation, as a uniform policy tool, increases the cost of imported inputs on which many industrial firms depend, in addition to the increase in the cost of credit already mentioned.

Provision of venture capital to newly emerging innovative firms may also attract international firms to collaborate with domestic firms.

Aware of the extent of the stakes involved, the French Armaments Office (DGA), France Télécom, CNES and the industrial contractors (Matra Marconi Space, Aérospatiale and Alcatel Espace) have pooled their efforts to propose a technological programme able to enhance the competitiveness of the French industrial firms.

Policy advice and technical cooperation are focusing on industrial governance, industrial export capacity building, quality and certification for industrial competitiveness, international industrial partnership and local industrial development.

For developing countries to benefit fully from industrial upgrading in China and other large emerging market economies, their governments must identify tradable industries that are consistent with their latent comparative advantage. They also must help private firms to resolve information, coordination, and externality issues in the process of industrial upgrading.

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Meanwhile, food production had become industrial. Industrial.

Clusters of firms may or may not involve formal partnerships between spatially proximate firms.

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Many such firms were family firms, which found it difficult to develop an entrepreneurial outlook.

In particular, inconsistencies among macroeconomic, trade, industrial and financial policies did little to encourage investors and firms to create, expand and improve productive capacity, while at the same time unleashing the forces of global competition.

But, though US bankruptcy law usually does a good job of restructuring industrial firms, it cannot restructure financial firms, because bankruptcy s basic rules which allow the court to consolidate the firm s assets, redeploy them, and sell the rest do not apply to most financial contracts, like derivatives. So, bankruptcy is both part of the problem and part of the hoped for solution if it can be fixed and made to work for financial firms.

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Industrial progress also requires coordination of related investments among firms. In Ecuador, a country that is now a successful exporter of cut flowers, farmers would not grow flowers decades ago because there was no modern cooling facility near the airport, and private firms would not invest in such facilities without a supply of flowers for export.

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International competitiveness among firms is in fact significantly influenced by the national environments in which firms operate.

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In recent years, large firms, including commodity firms, have increasingly used information technology to achieve two prime objectives.