Neo‐Marshallian Nodes in Global Networks*

Amin, Ash; Thrift, Nigel

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.1992.tb00197.x

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“…The concept of regional clustering has secured a prominent position in this literature, and has proved to be influential in the policy arena (Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions [DETR] 2000, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD] 2001). This concept owes much to the Marshallian industrial district and many recent elaborations, including the work of Brusco (1982), Piore and Sabel (1984), Amin and Thrift (1992) and Storper (1997). The business scholar, Michael Porter has also drawn on this literature, integrating it with his earlier work on competitive advantage to create a popular, practitioner-oriented 'cluster theory' (Porter 1998(Porter , 2000.…”

Section: Globalization Pressures and The 'Clusters' Debatementioning

confidence: 99%

Contrasting local responses to globalization: the case of volume yacht manufacturing in Europe

Blundel

Thatcher

2005

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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This paper is concerned with contrasting the impact of globalization pressures on industrial development in particular localities, with specific reference to the relative performance of regional clusters. A multiple case study approach is adopted in order to examine the decline of volume yacht manufacturing in a long-established English cluster and to compare its responses to globalization with those of major competitors located in other parts of Europe. The case study opens with an analysis of three sector-specific drivers of globalization that have exercised a decisive impact on the sector over the last three decades. In the main analytical section, two alternative approaches to the analysis of clusters (Porter 1990, Best 2001) are applied to the empirical material. The application of Porter's 'diamond' framework suggests some distinctive performance-related characteristics, while Best's 'cluster dynamics' model provides a more sophisticated explanation of the differential responses and outcomes identified in the English case. The implications for policy are that cluster-level outcomes may be predicated on the internal dynamics of their respective 'entrepreneurial fïrms', and that regional development initiatives would benefit from conceptual and empirical studies that can better address the historical and spatial complexity of the underlying processes.

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Section: Globalization Pressures and The 'Clusters' Debatementioning

confidence: 99%

Contrasting local responses to globalization: the case of volume yacht manufacturing in Europe

Blundel

Thatcher

2005

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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“…Other scholars work with yet another similar concept, namely the industrial district (Scott, 1988;Storper, 1995;Amin and Thrift, 1992;Best, 1990;Pyke and Sengenberger, 1992). This is a highly geographically concentrated group of companies that 'either work directly or indirectly for the same end-market, share values and knowledge so important that they define a cultural environment, and are specifically linked to one another in a complex mix of competition and co-operation' (Rosenfeld, 1995:13).…”

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Firm-level knowledge accumulation and regional dynamics

Caniëls

Romijn

2003

Industrial and Corporate Change

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“…Beyond this scale, there are towns and cities themselves. A considerable literature discusses the materiality of city regions, firm clusters (Bathelt et al 2004;Bresnahan and Gambardella 2004) or industrial districts (Amin and Thrift 1992;Hsu 2004) and seeks to understand how it shapes economic outcomes. Recent contributions to the globalization debate have argued that these spatial scales overlap, and begun to question concepts of scale in themselves (Marston et al 2005).…”

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