Life Cycles, Contingency, and Agency: Growth, Development, and Change in English Industrial Districts and Clusters

Andrew Popp and John Wilson
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Andrew Popp: School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, England
John Wilson: Institute of International Business, Lancashire Business School, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, England

Environment and Planning A, 2007, vol. 39, issue 12, 2975-2992

Abstract: Responding to a recent special issue of Environment and Planning A on decline in mature industrial regions, the paper summarises and presents recent historical work on English industrial districts and regions. The paper argues that historical methods, informed by cognate social sciences, allow us to place the concepts of contingency and lock-in on a firmer footing. The paper presents a nondeterministic life-cycle model of industrial districts.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1068/a38403

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