Italian industrial districts (IDs) have gone through profound transformations over the past three decades. These changes reflect a fading away of the ‘district effect’, which has come also with increasing intra and inter-ID heterogeneity of firms’ performance and characteristics, and growing internationalization also in the form of enhanced participation in Global Value Chains (GVC). In this chapter we take stock of the available empirical evidence on these recent transformations and elaborate a novel typology of Italian IDs’ organizational models (i.e. Low-road IDs; Locally rooted GVC-led IDs and Outward oriented GVC-led IDs), which we think could be useful to understand the transformations of districts or industrial clusters in other parts of the world.
Italian Industrial Districts Today: Between Decline and Openness to Global Value Chains
GIULIANI, ELISA;
2017-01-01
Abstract
Italian industrial districts (IDs) have gone through profound transformations over the past three decades. These changes reflect a fading away of the ‘district effect’, which has come also with increasing intra and inter-ID heterogeneity of firms’ performance and characteristics, and growing internationalization also in the form of enhanced participation in Global Value Chains (GVC). In this chapter we take stock of the available empirical evidence on these recent transformations and elaborate a novel typology of Italian IDs’ organizational models (i.e. Low-road IDs; Locally rooted GVC-led IDs and Outward oriented GVC-led IDs), which we think could be useful to understand the transformations of districts or industrial clusters in other parts of the world.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
