TY - JOUR
T1 - Italian industrial districts on the move
T2 - Where are they going?
AU - Rabellotti, Roberta
AU - Carabelli, Anna
AU - Hirsch, Giovanna
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Since the second half of the 1990s the Italian economy has experienced a significant slowdown in the rate of economic growth. The "dwarfism" of its manufacturing firms, their specialization in traditional sectors and their organization in industrial districts have been identified by many scholars as major structural weaknesses in the Italian industrial system. Nevertheless, there is a vast and flourishing empirical literature showing that many industrial districts are actually changing in terms of sector specialization, international and innovation strategies and emergence of new forms of enterprise organization. In this paper, we provide a critical survey of the new and different patterns of industrial organization emerging in industrial districts.
AB - Since the second half of the 1990s the Italian economy has experienced a significant slowdown in the rate of economic growth. The "dwarfism" of its manufacturing firms, their specialization in traditional sectors and their organization in industrial districts have been identified by many scholars as major structural weaknesses in the Italian industrial system. Nevertheless, there is a vast and flourishing empirical literature showing that many industrial districts are actually changing in terms of sector specialization, international and innovation strategies and emergence of new forms of enterprise organization. In this paper, we provide a critical survey of the new and different patterns of industrial organization emerging in industrial districts.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=57949103943&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09654310802513914
DO - 10.1080/09654310802513914
M3 - Article
SN - 0965-4313
VL - 17
SP - 19
EP - 41
JO - European Planning Studies
JF - European Planning Studies
IS - 1
ER -
