Joint action in Nairobi's informal handicraft production clusters.
This article explains the disruption of 'joint action' in production clusters caused by informality based on the findings of semi-structured interviews with 102 participants in the handicraft industry of Nairobi, Kenya. In particular, three diseconomies of informality are examined which disrupt ongo...
| Publicado en: | International Development Planning Review Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 317 - 338 |
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2016
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