Community and qualitative variety in industrial systems
A comparative analysis between the Marshallian industrial districts approach and a phenomenological perspective.
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varieties of capitalism, institutions, interdisciplinarity, industrial relations, socio-economicsAbstract
In the early 1960s Giacomo Becattini initiated a research program taking as a reference the notion of Marshallian industrial district (MID). Here it was recognized that a social reality with a strong territorial anchorage, the local community, was capable of shaping productive systems. However, the mere presence of the community did not imply an adequate conceptualization of the qualitative variety of the IDD. Therefore, the approach had to make explicit the mechanisms by which the community modifies the characteristics of the system. The paper is placed in the framework of this problem and analyzes, comparatively, two alternative ways of conceptualizing the community and its role in the production of the qualitative variety of industrial systems. On the one hand, it deals with the approach based on the notion of DIM and, on the other hand, with a phenomenological perspective defined by the hermeneutic-comprehensive approach to economic systems.
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