In recent years, many industries have seen the rise of new inter-organizationalforms. Among those new forms, organizational networks, clusters, and small worlds areattracting increasing interest, both in academic research and management practice. Whileeconomic theory considers such forms to be...

Several interesting results on the economics of industrial districts are collected in this book. The first part investigates over internal determinants of industrial district competitiveness looking at internal productivity, at patterns of innovation and at those factors which create a favorable...