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Sticky Places in Slippery Space: A Typology of Industrial Districts*
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The authors identified three types of industrial districts, with quite disparate firm configurations, internal versus external orientations, and governance structures: a hub-and-spoke industrial district, revolving around one or more dominant, externally oriented firms; a satellite platform, an assemblage of unconnected branch plants embedded in external organization links; and the state-anchored district, focused on one ormore public-sector institutions.Abstract:
As advances in transportation and information obliterate distance, cities and regions face a tougher time anchoring income-generating activities. In probing the conditions under which some manage to remain “sticky” places in “slippery” space, this paper rejects the “new industrial district,” in either its Marshallian or more recent Italianate form, as the dominant paradigmatic solution. I identify three additional types of industrial districts, with quite disparate firm configurations, internal versus external orientations, and governance structures: a hub-and-spoke industrial district, revolving around one or more dominant, externally oriented firms; a satellite platform, an assemblage of unconnected branch plants embedded in external organization links; and the state-anchored district, focused on one or more public-sector institutions. The strengths and weaknesses of each are reviewed. The hub-and-spoke and satellite platform variants are argued to be more prominent in the United States than the...read more
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Clusters and knowledge: local buzz, global pipelines and the process of knowledge creation
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Deconstructing clusters: chaotic concept or policy panacea?
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How does insertion in global value chains affect upgrading in industrial clusters
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Location and the Multinational Enterprise: A Neglected Factor?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the changing world economic scenario for international business over the past two decades, and then examine its implications for the location of foreign direct investment and multinational enterprise activity, concluding that many of the explanations of the 1970s and early 1980s need to be modified as firm-specific assets have become mobile across natural boundaries.
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Location and the multinational enterprise: a neglected factor?
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