August 2017: 246x174: 248pp
16 illustrations
Hb: 978-1-138-74286-4 | £105.00
eBook: 978-1-315-18204-9
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1. Industrial districts, clusters and global value chains: toward an integrated framework
Part I – Co-evolution of clusters and global value chains Chapter 2. Italian industrial districts today: between decline and openness to global value chains
Chapter 3. Evolutionary trajectories of industrial districts in global value chains
Chapter 4. Clusters, industrial districts and the impact of their growing intersection with global value chains Part II – The role of lead firms in global value chains and clusters
Chapter 5. MNEs and clusters: the creation of place- anchored value chains
Chapter 6. Global value chains and the role of MNEs in local production systems
Chapter 7. Knowledge, systemic contribution and brokerage in industrial clusters
Chapter 8. Local liabilities between immigrant and native entrepreneurship in clusters and global value chains Part III – Value chain activities: rethinking the role of manufacturing and innovation
Chapter 9. Manufacturing where art thou? Value chain organization and cluster-firm strategies between local and global
Chapter 10. Networks of clusters within global value chains: the case of the European ceramic tile districts in Spain and Italy
Chapter 11. The role of manufacturing within industrial districts: proposing and testing an innovative methodology Chapter 12. New frontiers for competitiveness and innovation in clusters and chains research
processes on the home-base industrial commons; The importance of engaging with global and local connections; Manufacturing and offshoring trends in Italy and in the Veneto region Methodology; Results and discussion; Industrial commons strategic assets Conclusions; Chapter 7. Knowledge, systemic contribution and brokerage in industrial clusters Introduction; Theoretical framework; Research questions; Empirical study; Context of the investigation; Questionnaire and data collection; Methodology; Results Conclusions; Chapter 8. Local liabilities between immigrant and native
entrepreneurship in clusters and global value chains Introduction; Liabilities in internationalization and global value chain; The case of native and immigrant entrepreneurship in Prato; An emerging theory on local liabilities; Local liabilities and global value chains: some conclusions; Part III –Value chain activities: rethinking the role of manufacturing and innovation Chapter 9. Manufacturing where art thou? Value chain organization and cluster firms’ strategies between local and global Introduction; Manufacturing in global value chains and value generation: new trends; Firms’ strategies in clusters as local manufacturing systems; Location of cluster firms’ manufacturing activities between local and global: An analysis of three Italian clusters; Methodology and analysis of clusters; The Montebelluna cluster; The furniture clusters; The Belluno eyewear cluster; Comparative analysis of company case studies Manufacturing (and geography) still matters; Chapter 10. Networks of clusters within GVC: the case of the European ceramic tile districts in Spain and Italy Introduction; Clusters/IDs and GVCs: Issues of governance and upgrading; Recent evolution of GVCs; Leadership, governance and upgrading in clusters and IDs; The role of ‘home-grown multinationals’ as knowledge broker/catalyst Empirical Analysis; Research setting in the tile industry: Castellon, Spain, and Sassuolo, Italy; Global Innovation Networks: Inter-Cluster Connection; Discussion of results Conclusions; Chapter 11. The role of manufacturing within industrial districts: proposing and testing an innovative methodology Introduction; The Bergamo textile and clothing district; Methodology; Identification of the value chain stages; Identification of the elementary activities in each stage; Survey design; Definition of the population of companies in the district; Data collection; Development of the indicators Results; Stage-level analysis; Activity-level analysis; Linking the ID and the GVC level of analysis Discussion; Company A; Company B Conclusions; Chapter 12 New frontiers for competitiveness and growth in clusters and chains research The co-evolution of clusters and global value chains; The increasing heterogeneity between and within IDs; Drivers in the co-evolution of IDs and GVCs Novel approaches to investigate ID evolution in GVCs; The role of key actors; Home-grown vs. foreign global lead firms; Cluster actors beyond global lead firms The future of manufacturing (and upgrading); The value of manufacturing and its link with innovation; Manufacturing, services and new technologies The future of globalization; Index;
