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Changing Governance of Local Economies
Responses of European Local Production Systems
Colin Crouch, Patrick Le Galès, Carlo Trigilia, and Helmut Voelzkow
392 pages
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Figures and tables
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234x156mm
978-0-19-925940-3
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Hardback
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26 February 2004
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- Examines the future of local economies in a global market
- Argues that rather than conforming to national stereotypes, local economies are innovative and diverse
- Examines case studies in four countries and trade sectors, including the IT, biopharmaceutical, steel, and machinery sectors.
This book examines patterns of economic governance in three specific, contrasting, contexts: machinery-producing districts; declining steel cities; and clusters of high-technology activities. Building on the work of their previous book (Local Production Systems in Europe: Rise or Demise? OUP 2001), which charted the recent development of local clusters of specialized manufacturing among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, the authors find patterns of economic governance far more complex and dynamic than usually described in a literature
which insists on identifying simple national approaches.
The machinery industries were often identified in the literature of the 1980s as prominent cases of industrial district formation, which were then considerably weakened by the crises of the mid-1990s. Did clustering help these industries and their associated districts to respond to challenge, or only weaken them further? The case studies focus on the Bologna and Modena area of Emilia-Romagna, Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg, Birmingham and Coventry in the English west midlands, but generally in France where there are very few local concentrations.
Even while some thought local production systems were in crisis, national governments and the European Commission continued to recommend their
approach to areas experiencing economic decline. This was particularly the case for cities that had been dependent on a small number of large corporations in industries that would no longer be major employers. Political and business leaders in these areas were encouraged to diversify, in particular through SMEs. Could this be done in response to external pressure, given that successful local production systems depend on endogenous vitality? The authors ask these questions of former steel-producing cities St. Etienne, Duisburg, Piombino, and Sheffield.
The idea that local production systems had had their day was challenged by clear evidence of clustering among SMEs in a number of flourishing high-tech industries in parts of the USA and western Europe. Why do
scientists, other specialists and firms actively embedded in global networks, bother with geographical proximity? This question is addressed by examining the software firms at Grenoble, the mass media cluster in Cologne, the information technology sector around Pisa, and the Oxfordshire biotechnology region.
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.
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Colin Crouch, Chairman of the Department of Political and Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology, European University Institute, Florence, Patrick Le Galès, Senior Researcher at CEVIFOP-CNRS, Paris, Carlo Trigilia, Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Florence, and Helmut Voelzkow, Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Society Research, Cologne Contributors:
Valeria Aniello, CEVIFOP-CNRS, Paris
Arne Baumann, Green Party, Berlin
Andrea Biagiotti, Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Florence
Luigi Burroni,
Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Florence, and European University Insitute, Florence
Colin Crouch, European University Institute, Florence
Henry Farrell, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
Nicolas Gaubert, Institut d'Urbanisme, University of Paris XII
Ulrich Glassmann, Forschungsintitut für Politische Wissenschaften und EuropäischeFragen, University of Cologne
Ann-Louise Holten, Department of Social and Political Science, European University Institute, Florence
Patrick Le Galès, CEVIFOP-CNRS, Paris
Joe O'Mahoney, Lancaster University
Neil Proudfoot, Société Générale, London
Martin Scott Hill, UK Department of Work and Pensions
Oliver Tirmarche, Centre de Sociologie des Organizations, Scinces Po, Paris
Annalisa Tonarelli, Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Florence
Carlo Trigilia, University of Florence
Helmut Voelzkow, Max Planck Institute for Society Research at Cologne
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1: Colin Crouch and Helmut Voelzkow: Introduction
Part I: Established Local Production Systems: The Machinery Industries
2: Colin Crouch: Introduction: The European Machinery Industry Under Pressure
3: Henry Farrell and Ann-Louise Holten: Collective Goods in the Local Economy: The Packaging Machinery Cluster in Bologna
4: Ulrich Glassmann: Refining National Policy: The Machine Tool Industry in the Local Economy of Stuttgart
5: Colin Crouch and Joe O'Mahoney: Machine Tooling in the United Kingdom
6: Patrick Le Galès and Nicolas Gaubert: Machine Tools in France: A Century of Failure to Build a Competitive Industry
7: Colin Crouch: Conclusions: Hybrid Governance and Networked Firms
Part II: Trying to Establish Local Production Systems: The Ex-Steel Cities
8: Helmut Voelzkow: Introduction: The Reconstruction of Declining Local Economies in Europe
9: Ulrich Glassmann and Helmut Voelzkow: Duisburg: A New Local Production System Substitutes an Old Steel Plant
10: Patrick Le Galès and Oliver Tirmarche: Life after Industrial Decline in St. Etienne: Robust SMEs, Deterritorialization, and the Making of a Local Mode of Governance
11: Colin Crouch and Martin Scott Hill: Regeneration in Sheffield: From Council Dominance to Partenership
12: Annalisa Tonarelli: Industrial Decline and Local Development Policies in the Steel Area of Piombino
13: Patrick Le Galès: Conclusion: After Steel: Some Minor Emergence of Local Production Systems Based on SMEs
Part III: New Local Production Systems: High-Tech Sectors
14: Carlo Trigilia: Introduction: High-Tech Districts
15: Neil Proudfoot: The Biopharmaceutical Cluster in Oxford
16: Arne Baumann and Helmut Voelzkow: Recombining Governance Modes: The Media Sector in Cologne
17: Andrea Biagiotti and Luigi Burroni: Between Cities and Districts: Local Software Systems in Italy
18: Valeria Aniello: Grenoble Valley
19: Carlo Trigilia: Conclusions: The Distinctive Needs of High-Tech Districts
20: Patrick Le Galès and Carlo Trigilia: Conclusions
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