Changing directions in Italy's manufacturing industrial districts

Fabio Nun and Giulio Caineilli

Industry and Innovation, 1996, vol. 3, issue 2, 105-118

Abstract: Scholarship concerning Italy's remarkable industrial districts is in need of an overhaul. The scholarship to date is characterised by descriptive work (rather than analysis and models) that makes repeated use of a paradigm containing many ideological assumptions; this paradigm does not seem to withstand examination utilising recent data. In particular, the paper argues that the idea of loose relationships amongst firms (also known as 'flexibility') demands revision. Such a revised approach is followed in research reported in the paper on the footwear industry in two industrial districts: the Emilian footwear districts of Fusignano and San Mauro Pascoli.

Date: 1996
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