%0 Journal Article 
%A Sforzi, Fabio
%T Rethinking the industrial district: 35 years later

%D 2015
%@ 2340-2717
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/26625
%X The year 2014 marked a double anniversary: the 35th and 25th anniversaries of the publication of two seminal papers of Giacomo Becattini on the industrial district. The first paper (Becattini, 1979) conceptualizes the industrial district as a «unit of investigation», while the second (Becattini, 1989) conceptualizes the industrial district as a «model of production». Between the two papers
there is a mutual dependence. The industrial district as a «model of production» deprived of the industrial district as a «unit of investigation» loses its originality as a way of interpreting economic change and becomes merely «one type of a cluster». This paper deals with the relationship between district and cluster, then also between the industrial district as a singular theoretical construct and the many industrial districts described by empirical investigations, and concludes with some remarks on the topicality of the industrial district.

%K Industrial district
%K Cluster
%K Regional economics
%K Regional studies
%K Economic history
%K Distrito industrial
%K Clúster
%K Economía regional
%K Estudios regionales
%K Historia económica
%K Economía
%K Economics
%K Geografía
%K Geography
%K Sociología
%K Sociology
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