 The Industrial District ModelChapter 3 in External Economies and Cooperation in Industrial Districts, 1997, pp 23-42 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract In the literature, the industrial district model is not presented as an analytical model, but rather as a list of stylized facts useful to organize empirical investigation and to confront it with reality. We propose to define industrial districts in terms of four key elements: (a) a cluster of mainly small and medium enterprises that are spatially concentrated and sectorally specialized (locational and spatial factors); (b) a strong, relatively homogeneous, cultural and social background linking the economic agents and creating a common and widely accepted sometimes explicit but often implicit behavioural code (social and cultural factors); (c) an intense set of backward, forward, horizontal and labour linkages, based both on market and non-market exchanges of goods, services, information and people (organizational and economic factors); (d) a network of public and private local institutions supporting the economic agents in the clusters (institutional and policy factors). Keywords: Skilled Labour; Economic Agent; Collective Efficiency; Stylize Fact; Cooperative Behaviour (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-25794-2_3 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25794-2_3 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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