Peter van Diermen
Ashgate
Hardback
252
1997
This book seeks explanations for the rapid growth of small family businesses in Indonesia. It develops an alternative analytical framework which departs from past models of the informal sector and petty commodity production and similarly dismisses recent attempts to apply Western theories of flexible specialization to the Third World. Rather emphasis is placed on the internal family structure of small businesses and its industrial organization in geographically specific clusters of similar businesses.