Subject: Economics and Finance Book Title: Changing Governance of Local Economies
Changing Governance of Local Economies
Responses of European Local Production Systems
Crouch, Colin
(Editor), Chairman of the Department of Political and Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology, European University Institute, Florence
Trigilia, Carlo
(Editor), Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Florence
Voelzkow, Helmut
(Editor), Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Society Research, Cologne
Le Galès, Patrick
(Editor), Senior Researcher at CEVIFOP-CNRS, Paris
Print publication date: 2004
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2006
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925940-3
doi:10.1093/0199259402.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2006
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925940-3
doi:10.1093/0199259402.001.0001
Abstract:
This book features case studies on national patterns of local production systems, focusing on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in France, Germany, Italy, and the UK. It is divided into three parts. Part I analyses the two cases that dominated the initial, 1980s industrial district literature: Emilia-Romagna and Baden Wurttemberg; and the machinery industry. Part II focuses on pre-crisis, large-firm, Fordist specialization. Part III presents examples of new industries where SME clusters are important: the biopharmaceutical industries around Oxford, the media sector in Cologne, information technology in Pisa, and computer technologies in Grenoble.
Keywords: SMEs, local production systems, France, Germany, Italy, UK, case studies, governance
Keywords: SMEs, local production systems, France, Germany, Italy, UK, case studies, governance
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The European Machinery Industry Under Pressure
3. Collective Goods in the Local Economy: The Packaging Machinery Cluster in Bologna
4. Refining National Policy: The Machine-Tool Industry in the Local Economy of Stuttgart
5. Machine Tooling in the United Kingdom
6. Machine Tools in France: A Century of Failure to Build a Competitive Industry
7. Hybrid Governance and Networked Firms
8. The Reconstruction of Declining Local Economies in Europe
9. Restructuring Duisburg: A New Local Production System Substitutes an Old Steel Plant
10. Life After Industrial Decline in St Etienne: Robust SMEs, Deterritorialization, and the Making of a Local Mode of Governance
11. Regeneration in Sheffield: From Council Dominance to Partnership
12. Industrial Decline and Local Development Policies in the Steel Area of Piombino
13. After Steel: Some Minor Emergence of Local Production Systems Based on SMEs
14. High-Tech Districts
15. The Biopharmaceutical Cluster in Oxford
16. Recombining Governance Modes: The Media Sector in Cologne
17. Between Cities and Districts: Local Software Systems in Italy
18. Grenoble Valley
19. The Governance of High-Tech Districts
20. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
doi:10.1093/0199259402.001.0001
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