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Industrial districts, social cohesion and economic decline in Italy.
- Source :
- Cambridge Journal of Economics; Nov2010, Vol. 34 Issue 6, p955-974, 20p, 1 Chart, 4 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- The economic and social vitality of industrial districts (IDs) depends on the interaction between two major sub-systems: a community of people and a population of firms. A range of circumstances determined inconsistencies between the rationales of these two sub-systems. The emergence of leader firms that substitute the ID as coordinating instances and cost scrapping as a strategy that bypasses quality enhancement undermine the ID as a system. The paper contends that this outcome is not the only possible one. An alternative would require a regulatory—as opposed to merely permissive—action of public actors. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- INDUSTRIAL districts
SOCIAL cohesion
GOVERNMENT policy
ECONOMIC conditions in Italy
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0309166X
- Volume :
- 34
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Cambridge Journal of Economics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 54966388
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bep076