Handbook of Industrial Districts

Edited by the late Giacomo Becattini, formerly Professor of Political Economy, Marco Bellandi, Professor of Applied Economics, University of Florence, Italy and Lisa De Propris, Senior Lecturer, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK

• Contents:Critical Nodes and Contemporary Reflections on Industrial Districts: An Introduction Giacomo Becattini, Marco Bellandi and Lisa De ProprisPART I: ORIGIN AND THEORIES OF INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTSSECTION 1. EARLY INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTSIntroduction by Alberto Guenzi 1. The Genesis of a Hybrid: Early Industrial Districts between Craft Culture and Factory TrainingCarlo Marco Belfanti2. Flexibility and Adaptation in the Formation of Three Italian Industrial Districts Corine Maitte 3. Apprenticeship and Technical Schools in the Formation of Industrial DistrictsElisabetta Merlo 4. The Emergence and Development of Industrial Districts in Industrialising England, 1750–1914Andrew Popp and John F. Wilson 5. Industrial Districts and Large Firms: The Stubborn Persistence of a ‘Weak’ Productive ModelAndrea ColliSECTION 2. FROM THE ENGLISH ROOTS TO THE ITALIAN REVIVALIntroduction by Tiziano Raffaelli 6. Forerunners of Marshall on the Industrial DistrictsPeter Groenewegen7. Industrial Districts in Marshall’s EconomicsBrian J. Loasby 8. External and Internal EconomiesNeil Hart 9. The Italian Revival of Industrial Districts and the Foundations of Political Economy Renzo Bianchi 10. The Italian Revival of Industrial Districts and the Foundations of Industrial Policy Anna Natali and Margherita Russo SECTION 3. A MEETING GROUND FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCESIntroduction by Carlo Trigilia 11. The Marshallian Industrial Districts and Current Trends in Economic TheoryMarco Dardi 12. The Economics of Context, Location and Trade: Another Great Transformation?Michael Storper 13. Flow-fund Model, Decomposability of the Production Process and the Structure of an Industrial DistrictPiero Tani 14. Clusters and Industrial Districts: Common Roots, Different PerspectivesMichael Porter and Christian Ketels PART II: THE NATURE OF INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTSSECTION 4. SOCIO-CULTURAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTSIntroduction by Paolo Giovannini 15. The Industrial District as a Local Evolutionary PhenomenonMaurizio Mistri 16. Semi-automatic and Deliberate Actions in the Evolution of Industrial DistrictsGabi Dei Ottati 17. The Governance of Industrial DistrictsArnaldo Bagnasco18. The New Argonauts, Global Search and Local Institution BuildingAnnaLee Saxenian and Charles Sabel 19. Web of Rules in Industrial Districts’ Labour Markets Jean Saglio SECTION 5. KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING AND CREATIVITY Introduction by Luciana Lazzeretti 20. Conceptualizing the Dynamics of Industrial DistrictsMichael J. Piore 21. Innovation Processes and Industrial DistrictsPaul L. Robertson, David Jacobson and Richard N. Langlois 22. The Creative Capacity of Culture and the New Creative MilieuLuciana Lazzeretti23. Technology Clusters, Industrial Districts and Regional Innovation SystemsPhilip Cooke24. Culture as a Productive Resource, International Networks and Local DevelopmentOlivier Crevoisier and Leïla Kebir PART III: EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATIONS ON INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTSSECTION 6. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE Introduction by Fabio Sforzi 25. The Empirical Evidence of Industrial Districts in ItalyFabio Sforzi 26. The Empirical Evidence of Industrial Districts in SpainRafael Boix 27. The Empirical Evidence of Industrial Districts in Great BritainLisa De Propris 28. Measuring the District EffectGuido de Blasio, Massimo Omiccioli and Luigi Federico Signorini29. Measuring the Internationalisation of Industrial DistrictsStefano MenghinelloSECTION 7. THE ITALIAN EXPERIENCESIntroduction by Michael Dunford 30. Sectors of Excellence in the Italian Industrial Districts Marco Fortis and Monica Carminati 31. Regional Peculiarities in Italian Industrial DistrictsFrancesco Musotti32. Medium-sized Firms, Groups and Industrial Districts: An Italian PerspectiveFulvio Coltorti 33. Knowledge Dynamics in the Evolution of Italian Industrial DistrictsFiorenzo Belussi 34. Bank’s Localism and Industrial DistrictsPietro Alessandrini and Alberto Zazzaro SECTION 8. THE EXPERIENCES IN OTHER INDUSTRIALISED COUNTRIESIntroduction by Gabi Dei Ottati35. Industrial Districts in EuropeGioacchino Garofoli 36. Industrial Districts and the Governance of Local Economies: The French ExampleGeorges Benko and Bernard Pecqueur 37. Industrial Districts in SpainJosep-Antoni Ybarra 38. Industrial Districts in ScandinaviaBengt Johannisson 39. Industrial Districts in JapanYoshiyuki Okamoto 40. The University Research-Centric District in the United StatesDonald Patton and Martin Kenney SECTION 9. THE EXPERIENCES IN EMERGING AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIESIntroduction by Werner Sengenberger 41. The Industrial District Model: Relevance for Developing Countries in the Context of GlobalisationAnne Caroline Posthuma 42. Industrial Districts in Latin America: The Role of Local Learning for Endogenous DevelopmentMario Davide Parrilli and Renato Garcia 43. Trajectories and Prospects of Industrial Districts in ChinaJici Wang and Lixia Mei 44. The Complexity of Upgrading Industrial Districts: Insights from the Diesel Engine Industry of Ludhiana (India)Meenu Tewari 45. The Scope of Industrial Districts in the Third WorldWerner Sengenberger PART IV: GLOBALISATION AND INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTSSECTION 10. GLOBAL CHALLENGESIntroduction by Enzo Rullani 46. Massachusetts High Tech: A ‘Manufactory of Species’ Michael H. Best47. Industrial Districts, Sectoral Clusters and Global Competition in the Precious Jewellery Industry Frank Pyke48. The Internationalisation of Production Activities of Italian Industrial DistrictsGiuseppe Tattara 49. Lessons from Industrial Districts for Historically Fordist RegionsJosh Whitford SECTION 11. PUBLIC POLICIES AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIESIntroduction by Giovanni Solinas 50. External Economies, Specific Public Goods and PoliciesMarco Bellandi 51. National Industrial Policies and the Development of Industrial Districts: Reflections on the Spanish CaseJoan Trullén52. Public Policies for Industrial Districts and ClustersMikel Landabaso and Stuart Rosenfeld 53. The Industrial District Model in the Development Strategy of International Organizations: The Example of UNIDOGiovanna Ceglie and Anna Stancher BibliographyIndex

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