Two complementary approaches are used. The first is to understand the furniture production process and the flexibility of different classes of entrepreneur within it. We consider the furniture industry of Jepara both as a specific example of an industrial district and, more generally, as a localised network of enterprises concentrated in a specific area. We analyse the economic and social relationships connecting suppliers, which result in a web of social and economic relations among those involved in production, processing and manufacturing, accompanied by increasing, often hierarchical, differentiation among them. The position of the various participants within this web, and the.
