ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the changing patterns of the world market and connecting them systematically with the industrial district in Leipzig. The Eitingons changed the focus of their business both according to geopolitical transformations and changes in the family. The chapter also examines the actions of the lead firms of the industrial district in the 1920s and questions their role in the re-admission to the world market. It also examines the extent to which the function of lead firms had ramifications on the social structure of the industrial district. The chapter examines processes of interfirm cooperation in this period of world market restructuring. It analyses the way in which Leipzig firms were able to reconnect with the Soviet foreign trade institutions. The chapter investigates whether the industrial district as a whole profited or lost from new processes of internationalisation and how new patterns of international business activity affected embeddedness.
