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T1 Rethinking the industrial district: 35 years later
T2 Repensar el distrito industrial: 35 años después
A1 Sforzi, Fabio
K1 Industrial district
K1 Cluster
K1 Regional economics
K1 Regional studies
K1 Economic history
K1 Distrito industrial
K1 Clúster
K1 Economía regional
K1 Estudios regionales
K1 Historia económica
K1 Economía
K1 Economics
K1 Geografía
K1 Geography
K1 Sociología
K1 Sociology
AB 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 papersthere 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.
SN 2340-2717
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/26625
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/26625
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 03-dic-2023