The Institutions of Local Development
By: Fabio Sforzi
Contributors: Amin, Ash
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781315193991
Subjects: Industrial promotion; Case studies; Economic development projects; Promotion industrielle; Études de cas; Projets de développement économique
Description: "This title was first published in 2003. Development is a complex and heterogeneous phenomenon, driven by the expansion of one or more sectors and their influence on the others. It is the outcome of local interdependencies among firms, households and institutions which give rise to specific territorial patterns of local systems. Policies of development cannot therefore restrict themselves to undifferentiated intervention from the centre to the periphery, but must be able to stimulate and sustain endogenous bottom-up growth by means of specific programmes. Thus, individuals and organizations, public or private interact, take decisions and devise strategies in a context that is simultaneously co-operative and competitive. The first in a series, this volume brings together a team of leading international social scientists from the IGU study group on local development. Illustrated by a wide range of global case studies, it analyses what knowledge is required for industrial production and how best to organize this knowledge, embedded as it is in physical, human and social capital. It focuses on the formation of social capital and the various forms into which this may evolve, in particular, the sets of institutions which regulate relationships within and among firms."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, Part I: Place-Specificity of Competitiveness --; title: chapter 1 Local Embeddedness and International Competitiveness -- The Case of the Swedish Music Cluster  -- Daniel Hallencreutz Per Lunclequist Anders Malmberg; title: chapter 2 The Local Embeddedness of Ethnic Entrepreneurship -- Over- and Under-Embeddedness in the Israeli Arab Economy --; title: chapter 3 High-Technology Clustering in Cambridge (UK)  -- Philip Cooke Robert Huggins; title: part, Part II: Trust Shaping Collective Action --; title: chapter 4 The Relations of Co-operation in Group Enterprises and Associations in Ghana -- Exploration of Issues of Trust and Power  -- Power Fergus Lyon; title: chapter 5 Social Capital and Development -- Issues of Institutional Design and Trust in Mexican Group-Based Microfinance  -- Marina Della Giusta; title: chapter 6 Constructing Alternative Circuits of Value -- The Case of Local Currency Systems (LCSs) --; title: part, Part III: Social Capital in the Pathways of Local Development --; title: chapter 7 Social Capital in the Development of the Agro Nocerino-Sarnese  -- Anna Bull Matteo Frate; title: chapter 8 The Emerging of Different Patterns of Local Development in the Third Italy -- Luigi Burroni.