Having collected some "from the field" data in the Italian region of Veneto, we can put the light on the main factors of efficiency of the italian industrial districts, but also on the main factors of their fragility. Those elements give us some indications about the limits of the notion of...

Chemical activities are confronted with the necessity of their transformation to match the new social and environmental requirements. This paper aims to show that Employment patterns are key elements of such a transformation, by their material characteristics as well by their institutional ones....

The industrial policies prompted by the French Government reveal the shift from a vertical division of labour to a horizontal one in which some local territories have to operate as ?modules of competencies?. The requirements in terms of management of productive innovation on the one hand, of...

This paper is focused on the local development problematic, not analyzed according to an endogenous view but, on the contrary, according to a territory conception opened to its institutional and economic environment (nationally, international). Such a conception involves thinking and clearing...

Clusters and Globalisation brings together scholars with different perspectives and theoretical groundings, and from different disciplines, to consider conceptual arguments and case study material. In doing so the volume identifies key characteristics and requirements of the forms of cluster...

Nowadays, the territory is the place where are implemented devices that challenge highly the traditional modes of intervention of Trade Unions. Shifting from ?hard institutional devices? to ?soft institutional? ones calls them to desert the negotiation logic to enter more hazy logics of...

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