@article{ref1,
title="Industrial districts, social cohesion and economic decline in Italy",
journal="Cambridge journal of economics",
year="2010",
author="Ramazzotti, Paolo",
volume="34",
number="6",
pages="955-974",
abstract="The economic and social vitality of industrial districts (IDs) depends on the interaction between two major sub-systems: a community of people and a population of firms. A range of circumstances determined inconsistencies between the rationales of these two sub-systems. The emergence of leader firms that substitute the ID as coordinating instances and cost scrapping as a strategy that bypasses quality enhancement undermine the ID as a system. The paper contends that this outcome is not the only possible one. An alternative would require a regulatory--as opposed to merely permissive--action of public actors.<p />",
language="",
issn="0309-166X",
doi="10.1093/cje/bep076",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cje/bep076"
}