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Peter Knorringa
Researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Publications - 66
Citations - 2075
Peter Knorringa is an academic researcher from Erasmus University Rotterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Frugal innovation & Corporate social responsibility. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 63 publications receiving 1873 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Knorringa include International Institute of Minnesota & International Institute of Social Studies.
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Learning from Global Buyers
Hubert Schmitz,Peter Knorringa +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the relative strengths and weaknesses of developing country producers and what circumstances facilitate or constrain such learning from global buyers, in a buyer-driven contract manufacturing scenario, where a large number of countries engage in contract manufacturing for a decreasing number of global buyers.
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Constrained gazelles : high potentials in West Africa's informal economy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors combine these findings and develop an innovative approach to identify what is called constrained gazelles, next to the well-known survivalists in the lower tier and growth-oriented top-performers in the upper tier.
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‘Helping a Large Number of People Become a Little Less Poor’: The Logic of Survival Entrepreneurs
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a consolidated set of key characteristics of the two types of enterprises, enriched by their own observations in the field, and outline an intervention rationale more attuned to the logic of survival entrepreneurs.
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Agra: An Old Cluster Facing the New Competition
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how producers in a traditional Indian cluster have responded to major recent changes in internal and external markets and showed that in a heterogeneous cluster such as Agra the answer differs by market channel.
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Unpacking social capital in Economic Development: How social relations matter
TL;DR: The concept of social capital is a contested concept, embraced by the mainstream as "the missing link" in economic analysis as discussed by the authors, which suggests a way to turn it into a more meaningful understanding of how soci...