Business Networks in Clusters and Industrial Districts
The Governance of the Global Value Chain
- 418 pages
- English
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Business Networks in Clusters and Industrial Districts
The Governance of the Global Value Chain
About this book
During the 1980s the Marshallian concept of industrial district (ID) became widely popular due to the resurgence of interest in the reasons that make the agglomeration of specialised industries a territorial phenomenon worth being analysed. The analysis of clusters and IDs has often been limited, considering only the local dimension of the created business networks. The external links of these systems have been systematically under-evaluated.
This book offers a deep insight into the evolution of these systems and the internal-external mechanism of knowledge circulation and learning. This means that the access to external knowledge (information or R&D cooperative research) or to productive networks (global supply chains) is studied in order to describe how external knowledge is absorbed and how local clusters or districts become global systems. It provides a unified approach; showing that existing capabilities expand when locally embedded knowledge is combined with accessible external knowledge. In this view, external knowledge linkages reduce the danger of cognitive 'lock-in' and 'over-embeddedness', which may become important obstacles to local learning and innovation when technological trajectories and global economic conditions change. A selection of international experts
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Regions and Cities
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures and tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part 1 The business model of industrial districts and clusters between the knowledge-based view and the global value chain perspective
- Part 2 Industrial districts in the global value chains: Marshallian and evolutionary districts
- Part 3 Industrial districts and clusters in the global value chains
- Part 4 High-tech industrial districts and clusters in the global value chains
- Index