TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Industrial districts, social cohesion and economic decline in Italy
JO  - Cambridge journal of economics
A1  - Ramazzotti, Paolo
SP  - 955
EP  - 974
VL  - 34
IS  - 6
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0309-166X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cje/bep076
ID  - ref1
ER  -