The Technological Evolution Of Industrial Districts

Author : Fiorenza Belussi,Giorgio Gottardi,Enzo Rullani
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461503934

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The Technological Evolution of Industrial Districts by Fiorenza Belussi,Giorgio Gottardi,Enzo Rullani Pdf

Fiorenza Belussi, Giorgio Gottardi, and Enzo Rullani This volume collects some papers presented at the Vicenza conference "The Future of Districts", held in June 1999, organised by the Department of Technology and Management of Industrial Systems of the Faculty of Engineering of Padua University, with the collaboration of several engineers, industrial economists, and experts in the issue of technology management. This was the starting point of a long-lasting and painful colIective discussion, the results of which are documented here, during many meetings of this "itinerant" group, including the workshop in Padua, organised by Professor Luciano Pilotti and held in May 2001, "Systems, governance & knowledge within firm networks" at the Department of Economics of the University of Padua, and the recent international research seminar, held in May 2002, in Rome at the Tagliacarne Institute, within the EU sponsored project "Industrial districts' re location processes: identifying policies of EU enlargement West-East ID". The reason we decided to organise this book was not only to underline the importance of the industrial district (ID) model as a tool of propulsive local growth in a country like Italy. On the contrary, the idea that moved us was the theoretical dissatisfaction with the way in which the phenomenon of local development and industrial clustering of specific industries was treated in the international approach of the various disciplines.

Author : Giacomo Becattini
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1782544003

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Industrial Districts by Giacomo Becattini Pdf

This book outlines the historical framework and the main concepts of the literature on industrial districts. It illustrates a new approach to the study of industrial development, based on well-known industrial districts analysis. Academics, politicians and students interested in local development and also industrial development will find much to learn in Industrial Districts, as will industrial geographers and historians of industry and of economic thought.

Author : Fiorenza Belussi,Giorgio Gottardi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429861864

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Evolutionary Patterns of Local Industrial Systems by Fiorenza Belussi,Giorgio Gottardi Pdf

Pulished in 2000, a selection of contributions presented in 1998 at the conference of Udine entitled, "The Development of Industrial Districts in Italy". The theoretical aim of the book is to explain the dynamic mechanism of the growth of Italian "industrial districts" shifting attention from "Marshallian industrial districts", where focus is not just on the decentralization of production among small-batch firms. Determinant factors explaining growth seem related to the ways in which firms explore the markets, learn tacit knowledge, network with subcontractors and make incremental innovations. In substance, the work offers a cognitive approach to the issue of industrial districts.

Author : United Nations Conference on Trade and Development,German Appropriate Technology Exchange
Publisher : New York and Geneva : United Nations
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : UCSD:31822019004084

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Technological Dynamism in Industrial Districts by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development,German Appropriate Technology Exchange Pdf

Author : Giulio Cainelli,Roberto Zoboli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783790827002

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The Evolution of Industrial Districts by Giulio Cainelli,Roberto Zoboli Pdf

Italian industrial districts (IDs) recently attracted international attention because their performance during the last few decades contradicted the alleged weakness of industrial structures based on SMEs in "traditional" sectors. The book analyses some developments taking place in Italian IDs and local systems of production that can represent a new stage of evolution for the backbone of the Italian economy. Based on the extensive use of original databases three main trajectories of change in IDs are presented. The first trajectory is the increasing role of "groups" of manufacturing SMEs arising from mergers and acquisitions as well as spin-off growth processes at the "family firms" level. The second one is the consolidation of innovation capabilities in IDs. And the third one is the internationalisation process of Italian IDs through both trade and foreign direct investment. The essays suggest that Italian IDs are again evolving by coherent adaptations which will have, however, uncertain outcomes.

Author : Tomoko Hashino,Keijiro Otsuka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811001826

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Industrial Districts in History and the Developing World by Tomoko Hashino,Keijiro Otsuka Pdf

This book sheds new light on the role of industrial districts in the industrial development of the past and present. Industrial districts, which refer to the geographical concentration of enterprises producing similar or closely related commodities in a small area, play a significant role in the development of manufacturing industries not only historically in Europe and Japan but also at present in emerging East Asian economies, such as China and Vietnam and low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The book identifies similarities in the development patterns of industrial districts in history and the present and analyzes the reasons for these similarities. More specifically, the book examines whether Marshallian agglomeration economies provide sufficient explanations and seeks to deepen understanding about the important factors that are missing. Despite the common issues addressed by economic historians and development economists regarding the advantages of industrial districts for industrial development, discussion of these issues between the two groups of researchers has been largely absent, or at best weak. The purpose of this book is to integrate the results of case studies by economic historians interested in France, Spain, and Japan and those by development economists interested in the contemporary industries still developing in China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Tanzania, and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Author : John Rees
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0847674096

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Technology, Regions, and Policy by John Rees Pdf

Technology, Regions, and Policy examines the links between technological change, regional development, and government policy. This timely book provides a synthesis of recent scholarship-the results of original research projects carried out by a distinguished group of academics. It explores the complex questions of how high-technology areas develop, the factors influencing the spread of industrial technology, and the impact of technological change on labor creation and displacement.

Author : Ivana Paniccia
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111775370

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Industrial Districts by Ivana Paniccia Pdf

The multidisciplinary, quantitative approach adopted by the author, enables her to "de-structure" the "canonical" idea of the ID and evaluate the normative value. Supported by multivariate and econometric analyses, she identifies four general types of ID each with different development paths, performances, inter-organizational relations, and regulatory rules and institutions. The results demonstrate that IDs on average achieve better static or dynamic economic performance than non-ID areas. The analysis also highlights critical points of rupture in the socio-economic equilibrium of IDs which may impair their future competitiveness and social sustainability. The author offers a critical appraisal of the organizational literature on IDs, claiming for caution in their depiction as "cooperative systems" and goes on to present the first steps towards a "microfoundation" of a theory on IDs.

Author : United States. Department of Commerce. Office of Technical Services,Theodore K. Pasma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Industrial districts
ISBN : UOM:39015027868655

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Organized Industrial Districts by United States. Department of Commerce. Office of Technical Services,Theodore K. Pasma Pdf

Author : Edward J. Malecki
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822025760596

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Technology and Economic Development by Edward J. Malecki Pdf

Continues to provide an excellent coverage on the effects of technological change on economic growth and development. The text retains its international focus, together with a broad coverage of the activities which constitute technological innovation.

Author : Giacomo Becattini
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026559091

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From Industrial Districts to Local Development by Giacomo Becattini Pdf

From Industrial Districts to Local Development introduces a set of papers representing the main contribution of the 'Florence school' to the recent literature on industrial districts. The authors illustrate that the revitalisation of the concept of industrial districts, returning to Alfred Marshall's nineteenth-century writings, is rooted in an unconventional interpretation of the economic development of Tuscany after the Second World War. Models of industrial organisation and empirical investigation of industrial tendencies are featured, and Alfred Marshall's concepts of the advantages of the geographical agglomeration of specialised small firms in industrial districts are reintroduced. The authors extend the analysis of purely economic effects of agglomeration, including social, cultural and institutional foundations of local development, and current case studies are presented. This book will appeal to scholars, lecturers and researchers focusing on industrial economics, development economics and economic geography. Its references to Italian political experiences will also be of interest to policymakers in both developed and developing countries.

Author : United Nations Conference on Trade and Development,German Appropriate Technology Exchange
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:877478948

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Technological Dynamism in Industrial Districts by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development,German Appropriate Technology Exchange Pdf

Author : Masatsugu Tsuji,Emanuele Giovannetti,Mitsuhiro Kagami
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847204462

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Industrial Agglomeration and New Technologies by Masatsugu Tsuji,Emanuele Giovannetti,Mitsuhiro Kagami Pdf

. . . the book is an interesting collection of anecdotal evidence. . . the book makes for interesting reading, both from the point of view of case studies and in terms of empirical methodological applications. Silvia Grandi, Economic Geography Research Group This is a valuable book. The individual chapters contain original case-study evidence and analytical insights. . . it is one that should be consulted by any scholar working in the area if industrial agglomerations and new technology. Simona Iammarino, Economic Geography This book, a collaborative effort by researchers from Japan, Italy and the USA, seeks to explore the reasons for industrial clustering in certain regions of Asia, Europe and North America. The studies presented illustrate real examples of industrial clusters, adding anecdotal evidence to the emerging theory of economic geography by exemplifying the centripetal and centrifugal forces that regulate the clustering process. The authors examine clusters in a diverse set of countries including China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, the USA and Vietnam. Significantly, the book provides an interesting split between studies of IT and software-related industries, and more traditional sectors, such as steel and vehicle manufacturing. Industrial Agglomeration and New Technologies pays attention to a varied array of factors that influence clustering, such as knowledge spillovers, tacit knowledge, communication and transport costs, and the effects of various government policies. The case studies provide useful examples for government and industry leaders, as well as a starting point for researchers seeking an ultimate answer to the question: Why do firms form clusters?

Author : Edward J. Malecki
Publisher : Longman Scientific and Technical
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822007678824

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Technology and Economic Development by Edward J. Malecki Pdf

Author : Carlo Carboni,Francesco Orazi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000282092

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Entrepreneurship, Polycentrism, and Elites by Carlo Carboni,Francesco Orazi Pdf

The book is a cross-section of the over all Italian development. Italy can be considered a microcosm that contains all the imbalances and territorial differences that can be observed in the European macro-areas. Its north can now be considred integrated with the more developed European continental shelf. The Centre represents a local development in transition to a more visible technological change. The late south risks accumulating more socio-economic backwardness. For these reasons, we believe this volume is useful, with just a few pages presenting one of the most interesting cases of local industrial development, outside the mainstream of the industrial economy which saw in Fordism and Taylorism the best way for industrializaion. Here, on the contrary, it is argued that big fish cannot always consume the smallest one that flickers faster and its flexibility, that has social roots, can be an advantage in global markets. Technology appears to be the key to the future. Please note: This title is co-published with Aakar Books, New Delhi. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Maldives or Bhutan)