| Business Networks in Clusters and Industrial Districts: The Governance of the Global Value Chain Contributor(s): Belussi, Fiorenza (Editor), Sammarra, Alessia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 041545784X ISBN-13: 9780415457842 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $209.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2009 Annotation: How do we define and identify districts and clusters? How do they evolve? How do clusters and districts relate to the global economy? What policy options are available to promote them in east and west economies? This collection of papers from international experts includes theoretical and empirical contributions examining these questions and offering deep insights into the internal-external mechanism of knowledge circulation and learning. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Urban & Regional - Business & Economics | Economics - General - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy |
| Dewey: 338.604 |
| LCCN: 2008054418 |
| Series: Regions and Cities |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (1.80 lbs) 418 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |