The Institutions of Local Development
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The Institutions of Local Development

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Institutions of Local Development

About this book

This title was first published in 2003. Development is a complex and heterogeneous phenomenon, driven by the expansion of one or more sectors and their influence on the others. It is the outcome of local interdependencies among firms, households and institutions which give rise to specific territorial patterns of local systems. Policies of development cannot therefore restrict themselves to undifferentiated intervention from the centre to the periphery, but must be able to stimulate and sustain endogenous bottom-up growth by means of specific programmes. Thus, individuals and organizations, public or private interact, take decisions and devise strategies in a context that is simultaneously co-operative and competitive. The first in a series, this volume brings together a team of leading international social scientists from the IGU study group on local development. Illustrated by a wide range of global case studies, it analyses what knowledge is required for industrial production and how best to organize this knowledge, embedded as it is in physical, human and social capital. It focuses on the formation of social capital and the various forms into which this may evolve, in particular, the sets of institutions which regulate relationships within and among firms.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781138720046
eBook ISBN
9781351759816

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Preface
  10. Part I: Place-Specificity of Competitiveness
  11. Part II: Trust Shaping Collective Action
  12. Part III: Social Capital in the Pathways of Local Development
  13. Index