The decline of a model? Challenge and response in the Italian industrial districts

By Josh Whitford. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Leave‐Out Estimation of Variance Components (2018, unknown): “The second province, Belluno, is a wealthy area that is intensive in manufacturing and contains one of the largest clusters of eyeglass production in Europe (Whitford, 2001).”
Knowledge Networks and Innovative Performance in an Industrial District: The Case of a Footwear District in the South of Italy (2007, background): “…industrial districts that presented clear evidence of the emergence of powerful leading firms and business groups through local mergers/acquisitions and direct investments / takeovers by foreign corporations (Dei Ottati, 1996, Boari and Lipparini, 1999; Whitford, 2001; Cainelli et al. 2005).”
Power Relations, Industrial Clusters, and Regional Transformations: Pan-European Integration and Outward Processing in the Slovak Clothing Industry (2003, background): “Although this uncritical view has been challenged by some (Amin and Robins 1990; Harrison 1994) and coun- tered by others (Whitford 2001), it is clear that even in studies of the growth of powerful groupings of firms in Italian districts, the neglect of interfirm relations of power remains…”
E-Commerce, Taobao Villages and Regional Development in China* (2020, background): “The industrial district literature, however, has also been criticized for its failure to take into account of the effects of globalization and the role of states (Whitford 2001; Hadjimichalis 2006; Wei and others 2007).”
Local clusters in global value chains: exploring dynamic linkages between Germany and Pakistan (2005, background): “Yet, despite these gains, we now know that clusters are neither homogenous (Harrison 1994), nor that they follow a ‘natural’ and sustained growth path (Belussi 1999, Whitford 2001).”
Economic Sociologies in Space (2005, background): “…the late 1980s and early 1990s, attention moved to Italian and French sociology, as the debates about flexible specialization and industrial districts moved to center stage— the neo-Marshallian moment (see Pyke, Becattini, and Sengenberger 1990; Storper and Scott 1992; Barbera 2002; Whitford 2001).”
Restructuring Industrial Districts, Scaling Up Regional Development: A Study of the Wenzhou Model, China (2007, background): “Second, a small body of literature has emerged that questions the relevance of the notions of MIDs and the Italian model (Amin 2000; Whitford 2001; Hadjimichalis 2006).”