Business Networks in Clusters and Industrial Districts: The Governance of the Global Value Chain

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Fiorenza Belussi Alessia Sammarra

Business Networks in Clusters and Industrial Districts

The Governance of the Global Value Chain

Fiorenza Belussi, Alessia Sammarra

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Routledge
20 July 2009

Business studies: general

Series: Regions and Cities

During the 1980s the Marshallian concept of industrial district (ID) became widely popular due to the resurgence of interest in the reasons that make the agglomeration of specialised industries a territorial phenomenon worth being analysed. The analysis of clusters and IDs has often been limited, considering only the local dimension of the created business networks. The external links of these systems have been systematically under-evaluated.

This book offers a deep insight into the evolution of these systems and the internal-external mechanism of knowledge circulation and learning. This means that the access to external knowledge (information or R&D cooperative research) or to productive networks (global supply chains) is studied in order to describe how external knowledge is absorbed and how local clusters or districts become global systems. It provides a unified approach; showing that existing capabilities expand when locally embedded knowledge is combined with accessible external knowledge. In this view, external knowledge linkages reduce the danger of cognitive ‘lock-in’ and ‘over-embeddedness’, which may become important obstacles to local learning and innovation when technological trajectories and global economic conditions change. A selection of international experts

Edited by: Fiorenza Belussi, Alessia Sammarra
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: v. 39
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 990g
ISBN: 9780415457842
ISBN 10: 041545784X
Series: Regions and Cities
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 20 July 2009
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Fiorenza Belussi is Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Organization at the University of Padua, Italy. Alessia Sammarra is Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Organization at the Faculty of Economics, University of L'Aquila, Italy.

Reviews for Business Networks in Clusters and Industrial Districts: The Governance of the Global Value Chain

My conclusion is that the book as a whole represents a valuable contribution to current debates concerning the role of clusters and geographical proximity in the globalised economy. I find this book both relevant to scholars and policy makers Grete Rusten, University of Bergen, Norway