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2009
This article reviews the scholarly literature that has developed in the wake of the discovery of industrial districts and the Third Italy in the 1970s, and explores the traveling of this concept through a variety of geographical contexts and theoretical perspectives.
Filippo Celata, Ugo Rossi
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This article reviews the scholarly literature that has developed in the wake of the discovery of industrial districts and the Third Italy in the 1970s, and explores the traveling of this concept through a variety of geographical contexts and theoretical perspectives.
Filippo Celata, Ugo Rossi
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Transforming Industrial Districts
2009Abstract This article articulates an evolving, new view of inter-organizational relationships (IORs), in industrial districts derived from data on twenty-one leading Italian firms engaged principally in the production of goods where fashion and design occupy a central role: shoes, clothing, leather goods, and furniture.
Lazerson, Mark H., Lorenzoni, Gianni
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Industrial districts: the contemporary debate
ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE, 2011The aim of the paper is to present the main lines of the wide-ranging and decades-long debate on IDs (industrial districts). We look at what the IDs have represented in the past, their current situation, and the challenges and opportunities these face in a socio-economic context that is spurring greater interaction between global and local forces.
BECATTINI, GIACOMO +2 more
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2001
AbstractApplies the schematic representation of information systems to two major industrial districts: Prato, Italy, and Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. It highlights the way that regional business activity is integrated into the wider economy through external information flow.
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AbstractApplies the schematic representation of information systems to two major industrial districts: Prato, Italy, and Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. It highlights the way that regional business activity is integrated into the wider economy through external information flow.
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2011
The high performance levels gained by firms of Italian industrial districts raised both the international economic and managerial scientific communities’ interest and stimulated the production of a series of research studies concerning the micro as well as the macro level of analysis.
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The high performance levels gained by firms of Italian industrial districts raised both the international economic and managerial scientific communities’ interest and stimulated the production of a series of research studies concerning the micro as well as the macro level of analysis.
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Small Firms and Industrial Districts
2012Industrial districts (IDs) are dense centres of life and work, characterised by one or a few related localised industries tightly intertwined with the local society and the local institutional setup (Becattini et al., 2009). The agglomeration of firms, and thereby industries, in specific places when it coincides with the concentration and integration ...
BELLANDI, MARCO, L. De Propris
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Industrial Districts, Innovation and I-district Effect: Territory or Industrial Specialization?
European Planning Studies, 2010The I-district effect hypothesis establishes the existence of highly intense innovation in Marshallian industrial districts due to the presence of external localization economies. However, industrial districts are characterized by specific manufacturing specializations in such a way that this effect could be due to these dominant specializations.
Rafael Boix, Joan Trullén
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Institutional innovations in industrial districts
2004The present essay aims to analyse the nature and the evolution of industrial district firms in terms of their institutional model. It is divided into four parts. In the first part, we observe the presence of certain barriers preventing institutional change in each model of firm. In the second part, some specific institutional and historical features in
FERRUCCI, Luca, VARALDO R.
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Industrial sectors and industrial districts: tools for industrial analysis
European Planning Studies, 2002The article begins by showing that the traditional concept of industrial sector has been radically criticized on both theoretical and empirical grounds. The reasons for the concept's inadequacy are raised, and they are identified as: (i) the fact that in a rapidly changing world empirical classifications must be changed; (ii) the fact that when ...
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Group relations and industrial districts
2007This paper introduces a notion of intermediate degree of specificity in order to explain the combination between market and non-market coordination mechanisms typically associated with the local industrial systems’ governance structure. More specifically, it is shown that, when investments are in principle imitable, a group of investors may find it ...
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