Since the 1970s, Industrial Districts (IDs) have emerged as a socioeconomic concept todescribe and explain territorial phenomena characterized by an industrial specializationalongside cooperative relationships between enterprises, local institutions, and socialforces. A number of empirical studies have highlighted many aspects that havecontributed to the development of IDs, including labor market, training, and familystructures, often linked to the rural footprint and its various forms of persistence, not tomention associations, trade union relations, institutions, and local banks.Transformations in global systems do not cancel IDs; rather they radically transform andadapt themselves to face new conditions and challenges. The process of territorialinstitutionalization, in its development in time and space, does not seem to be ended, butrather endless.
Industrial districts: past, present, and future
Balduzzi, Giacomo
2022-01-01
Abstract
Since the 1970s, Industrial Districts (IDs) have emerged as a socioeconomic concept todescribe and explain territorial phenomena characterized by an industrial specializationalongside cooperative relationships between enterprises, local institutions, and socialforces. A number of empirical studies have highlighted many aspects that havecontributed to the development of IDs, including labor market, training, and familystructures, often linked to the rural footprint and its various forms of persistence, not tomention associations, trade union relations, institutions, and local banks.Transformations in global systems do not cancel IDs; rather they radically transform andadapt themselves to face new conditions and challenges. The process of territorialinstitutionalization, in its development in time and space, does not seem to be ended, butrather endless.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
