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Enterprise, Embeddedness and Exclusion: Business and Development in Fiji

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This paper explores the extent to which firms are locally embedded in the developing country context of Fiji. Current thinking on local growth in the face of globalisation emphasises the significance of networked, trust‐based relationships in either clusters or commodity chains as part of a broadly based institutionalist model of economic change. The changing relationships between sets of enterprises in Fiji are examined to assess whether the relationships of theory exist in this particular context. The relationships between ‘colonial’ transnational corporations (TNCs), other TNCs, Indo‐Fijian family business networks, livelihood enterprises, the Fijian political elite and an emerging Fijian business elite are examined. It is concluded that the economic and social fractures in the small island developing country limit, if not preclude, the creation of the local social capital that might foster self‐sustaining local economic growth.

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  • Michael Taylor, 2002. "Enterprise, Embeddedness and Exclusion: Business and Development in Fiji," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 93(3), pages 302-315, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:tvecsg:v:93:y:2002:i:3:p:302-315
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9663.00204
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    1. Michael Taylor, 2010. "Clusters: A Mesmerising Mantra," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 101(3), pages 276-286, July.
    2. Imran Ahmed Shah & Tamas Csordas & Umair Akram & Amit Yadav & Hassan Rasool, 2020. "Multifaceted Role of Job Embeddedness Within Organizations: Development of Sustainable Approach to Reducing Turnover Intention," SAGE Open, , vol. 10(2), pages 21582440209, June.

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