Product Description: This book aims to explore the potential of the industrial district 'model' through the analysis of Italy, the 'land' of districts, and in Mexico, a less developed country. Empirical research assesses the extent to which the core characteristics of the 'model' correspond to the clusters analyzed...read more

Product Description: This book illustrates that Industrial Districts (ID) have dramatically changed over the past three decades: the Marshallian notion of a cluster of small firms has been vastly transformed by the emergence of rapidly-growing firms. The authors therefore highlight the need to understand these changes and identify how ID competitiveness can be effectively sustained...read more

Product Description: Italian industrial districts (IDs) recently attracted international attention because their performance during the last few decades contradicted the alleged weakness of industrial structures based on SMEs in "traditional" sectors...read more