Changing Governance of Local Economies: Responses of European Local Production Systems
Colin Crouch, Patrick Le Galès, Carlo Trigilia, Helmut Voelzkow (eds.)
MPIfG Book
Abstract
Do specialized local clusters of small and medium-sized firms have a future in the global economy? The authors address this question with case studies of cities in France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. They look at the machinery industries, former steel-producing cities trying to develop clusters in new activities, and high-tech sectors. They find evidence of considerable vitality, often contradicting national stereotypes of how economies are organized.
Readership: Academics working in business and management studies, local economic development, local politics, social, economic, and regional geography, and economic sociology; practitioners and policy-makers in local development.
Contents
1 |
Introduction |
Part I Established Local Production Systems: The Machinery Industries | |
2 | Introduction: The European Machinery Industry Under Pressure Colin Crouch |
3 | Collective Goods in the Local Economy: The Packaging Machinery Cluster in Bologna Henry Farrell and Ann-Louise Lauridsen |
4 | Refining National Policy: The Machine Tool Industry in the Local Economy of Stuttgart Ulrich Glassmann |
5 | Machine Tooling in the United Kingdom Colin Crouch and Joe O'Mahoney |
6 | Machine Tools in France: A Century of Failure to Build a Competitive Industry Patrick Le Galès and Nicolas Gaubert |
7 | Conclusions: Hybrid Governance and Networked Firms Colin Crouch |
Part II Trying to Establish Local Production Systems: The Ex-Steel Cities | |
8 | Introduction: The Reconstruction of Declining Local Economies in Europe Helmut Voelzkow |
9 | Duisburg: A New Local Production System Substitutes an Old Steel Plant Ulrich Glassmann and Helmut Voelzkow |
10 | Life after Industrial Decline in St. Etienne: Robust SMEs, Deterritorialization, and the Making of a Local Mode of Governance Patrick Le Galès and Oliver Tirmarche |
11 | Regeneration in Sheffield: From Council Dominance to Partnership Colin Crouch and Martin Scott Hill |
12 | Industrial Decline and Local Development Policies in the Steel Area of Piombino Annalisa Tonarelli |
13 | Conclusion: After Steel: Some Minor Emergence of Local Production Systems Based on SMEs Patrick Le Galès |
Part III New Local Production Systems: High-Tech Sectors | |
14 | Introduction: High-Tech Districts Carlo Trigilia |
15 | The Biopharmaceutical Cluster in Oxford Neil Proudfoot |
16 | Recombining Governance Modes: The Media Sector in Cologne Arne Baumann and Helmut Voelzkow |
17 | Between Cities and Districts: Local Software Systems in Italy Andrea Biagiotti and Luigi Burroni |
18 | Grenoble Valley Valeria Aniello |
19 | Conclusions: The Distinctive Needs of High-Tech Districts Carlo Trigilia |
20 | Conclusions Patrick Le Galès and Carlo Trigilia |