- Title Pages
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The European Machinery Industry Under Pressure
- 3 Collective Goods in the Local Economy: The Packaging Machinery Cluster in Bologna
- 4 Refining National Policy: The Machine-Tool Industry in the Local Economy of Stuttgart
- 5 Machine Tooling in the United Kingdom
- 6 Machine Tools in France: A Century of Failure to Build a Competitive Industry
- 7 Hybrid Governance and Networked Firms
- 8 The Reconstruction of Declining Local Economies in Europe
- 9 Restructuring Duisburg: A New Local Production System Substitutes an Old Steel Plant
- 10 Life After Industrial Decline in St Etienne: Robust SMEs, Deterritorialization, and the Making of a Local Mode of Governance
- 11 Regeneration in Sheffield: From Council Dominance to Partnership
- 12 Industrial Decline and Local Development Policies in the Steel Area of Piombino
- 13 After Steel: Some Minor Emergence of Local Production Systems Based on SMEs
- 14 High-Tech Districts
- 15 The Biopharmaceutical Cluster in Oxford
- 16 Recombining Governance Modes: The Media Sector in Cologne
- 17 Between Cities and Districts: Local Software Systems in Italy
- 18 Grenoble Valley
- 19 The Governance of High-Tech Districts
- 20 Conclusions
- REFERENCES
- Index
Introduction
Introduction
- Chapter:
- (p.1) 1 Introduction
- Source:
- Changing Governance of Local Economies
- Author(s):
Colin Crouch (Contributor Webpage)
Helmut Voelzkow
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The main aim of this book is to determine the national patterns of local production systems, particularly those involving small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in France, Germany, Italy, and the UK. This chapter lays down the theoretical foundations for this volume then explains the methodologies used for the selection and analysis of case studies. An overview of the case studies is then presented.
Keywords: local production system, SMEs, governance mechanisms, local economies, France, Germany, Italy, UK
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- Title Pages
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The European Machinery Industry Under Pressure
- 3 Collective Goods in the Local Economy: The Packaging Machinery Cluster in Bologna
- 4 Refining National Policy: The Machine-Tool Industry in the Local Economy of Stuttgart
- 5 Machine Tooling in the United Kingdom
- 6 Machine Tools in France: A Century of Failure to Build a Competitive Industry
- 7 Hybrid Governance and Networked Firms
- 8 The Reconstruction of Declining Local Economies in Europe
- 9 Restructuring Duisburg: A New Local Production System Substitutes an Old Steel Plant
- 10 Life After Industrial Decline in St Etienne: Robust SMEs, Deterritorialization, and the Making of a Local Mode of Governance
- 11 Regeneration in Sheffield: From Council Dominance to Partnership
- 12 Industrial Decline and Local Development Policies in the Steel Area of Piombino
- 13 After Steel: Some Minor Emergence of Local Production Systems Based on SMEs
- 14 High-Tech Districts
- 15 The Biopharmaceutical Cluster in Oxford
- 16 Recombining Governance Modes: The Media Sector in Cologne
- 17 Between Cities and Districts: Local Software Systems in Italy
- 18 Grenoble Valley
- 19 The Governance of High-Tech Districts
- 20 Conclusions
- REFERENCES
- Index
