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Title

Business networks in clusters and industrial districts : the governance of the global value chain / edited by Fiorenza Belussi and Alessia Sammarra.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Belussi, Fiorenza.
• Sammarra, Alessia

Description

xxix, 413 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Regions and cities

Uniform Title

Regions and cities

Subject

• Business networks
• Industrial clusters
• Industrial districts
• International organization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The international fragmentation of the industrial districts and clusters (ID & Cs) value chain between relocation and global integration / Fiorenza Belussi and Alessia Sammarra -- Localized and distance learning in industrial districts / Fiorenza Belussi and Silvia Rita Sedita -- Boundary-spanning strategies of industrial districts : the impact of absorptive capacity / Tine Aage -- From proximity advantages to organizational advantages through the global extension of an industrial district : the case of the footwear district of Verona / Fiorenza Belussi -- The evolution of a technologically dynamic district : the case of Montebelluna / Fiorenza Belussi -- A 'low road' to competitiveness in the global apparel industry : the case of the Vibrata Valley district / Alessia Sammarra -- Moving immigrants into Western industrial districts : the 'inverse' delocalization of the leather tanning district of Arzignano / Fiorenza Belussi and Silvia Rita Sedita --^
• The evolution of external linkages and relational density in the Tuscan leather industry / Lorenzo Bacci, Mauro Lombardi and Sandrine Labory -- Transferring entrepreneurship : the making of the cluster of Timişoara / Fiorenza Belussi -- The internationalization of the 'footwear agglomeration' of Timişoara : how deeply embedded are local firms? / Simona Montagnana -- Local systems playing globally : heterogeneous districts in the ornamental horticulture global value chain / Firoenza Belussi and Silvia Rita Sedita -- Industrial districts and globalization : learning and innovation in local and global production systems / Fiorenza Belussi and Bjørn T. Asheim -- Industrial clusters in the Brazilian ceramic tile industry and the new challenges of the competition in the global value chain / Renato Garcia and Gabriela Scur -- Local development and innovation policies in China : the experience of Guangdong specialized towns / Annalisa Caloffi --^
• The institutional design of clusters in the Greater Paris Region / Najoua Boufaden, Sofiène Lourimi and André Torre -- The development of local-global linkages in the biotech districts in Germany : local embeddedness or distance learning? / Dirk Fornahl and Chung Anh Tran -- Two sides of the same coin? Local and global knowledge flows in Medicon Valley / Jerker Moddysson, Lars Coenen and Bjørn T. Asheim -- Local innovation systems, upgrading and innovation policy : lessons from the Bangalore cluster, India / Jan Vang and Cristina Chaminade.

ISBN

• 9780415457842 (hb)
• 041545784X (hb)
• 9780203875551 (eb)
• 0203875559 (eb)

LCCN

^^2008054418

OCLC

297222648

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library