Figure 10 illustrates the bilateral relationships of the consumer electronics firms discussed above and the corresponding country-specific industry clusters for the year 2007.

Figure 10. Electronics industry clusters in the CEE (status 2007); CZ = Czech Republic, SK = Slovakia, HU = Hungary, PL = Poland, (SP = Spain, and GER = Germany do not belong to CEE region) [UCINET network analysis]

As illustrated in Figure 10, in 2007, Samsung concentrated on Hungary and Slovakia, where the South Korean Chaebol installed a cross-border, vertically integrated value chain from display to final device assembly (ownership and internalization advantage). LG ...

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