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Changing Nature and Sustainability of the Industrial District Model : The Case of Technic Valley in France

Barabel, Michel; Huault, Isabelle; Meier, Olivier (2007), Changing Nature and Sustainability of the Industrial District Model : The Case of Technic Valley in France, Growth and Change, 38, 4, p. 595-620. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2257.2007.00389.x

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Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Date
2007
Journal name
Growth and Change
Volume
38
Number
4
Publisher
University of Kentucky
Pages
595-620
Publication identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2257.2007.00389.x
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Author(s)
Barabel, Michel
Huault, Isabelle
Meier, Olivier
Abstract (EN)
This paper examines the impact of contemporary pressures on industrial districts and analyses the changes that are taking place in an industrial district confronted with disembedding and globalisation. We discuss the following questions: What are the processes and consequences of disembedding for the changing shape and form of inter-firm trust, contract and network forms? Is there an evolution in subcontracting and trade interdependency? What is the role of institutional infrastructures? We performed a longitudinal qualitative study using a number of different data sources to analyse the evolution of one French industrial district, particularly how new pressures of internationalisation and disembedding work to reconfigure inter-firm relations in this district. While the recent literature is dominated by notions about industrial districts that concern only the trend towards increased competition or disembeddedness, this article shows that there is no unilinear trend. In contrast with the findings of certain recent studies, we argue that economic logic does not fully account for recent developments because the adjustment that are being made by the district are characterised rather by re-embeddedness, increased cooperation, and institutionalisation.
Subjects / Keywords
Encastrement; Districts industriels; Coopération; Réseaux sociaux
JEL
L52 - Industrial Policy; Sectoral Planning Methods
L21 - Business Objectives of the Firm
L16 - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics: Industrial Structure and Structural Change; Industrial Price Indices
Z13 - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Social and Economic Stratification

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