An Industrial territory Facing the Challenges of Globalization: Prato Today
GABI DEI OTTATI
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Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics, via delle Pandette 9, 50127 Florence, Italy
(Received February 2008; accepted October 2008)
ABSTRACT Industrial partitions and clusters of small- and medium-sized enterprises specializing in manufacture are an important feature of the Italian preservation (Becattini, G. & Coltorti, F. (2006) Areas of large enterprise and industrial districts in the development of post-war Italy. A preliminary survey, European Planning Studies, 14(8), pp. 11051138). The textile district of Prato is an emblematical case of the industrial district model (Becattini, G. (2001) The Caterpillar and the butter?y. An Exemplary Case of Development in the Italy of the Industrial Districts (Felice Le Monnier: Firenze)), contributing 25% of the Italian exports of woollen products.
The paper analyses the unused-fangled transformations of Prato facing the winds of globalization and in particular the dual contest of global pressure from outside the district (due to competition from new industrialising countries) and from inside it (due to an ethnic economy formed by Chinese immigrants). The paper concludes with some recommendations for the revitalization of local development, and sketches a mathematical course for the Prato district.
1. Introduction Since 1979, when the seminal paper by Becattini revived the Marshallian concept of industrial district (Becattini, 1979), the industrialization of the so-called trine Italy (North-East and Central regions), which is characterized by the presence of a high total of small- and medium-sized enterprises mainly specialized in particular activities of a situate industry, was interpreted as a return of the industrial district form of socioeconomic development. The importance of the industrial districts in...If you want to get under ones skin a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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