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Forms of Proximity, Local Governance and the Dynamics of Local Economic Spaces: The Case of Industrial Conversion Processes

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  • Jean‐Pierre Gilly
  • Frédéric Wallet

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Starting from an approach that mobilizes a plural definition of proximity – institutional, organizational and geographical – in the aim of endogenizing the space in economic analysis, this article seeks to understand the dynamics of local economic spaces through a re‐reading of the concept of local governance. Thus, it stresses the importance of institutional compromise‐building processes in explaining the trajectories and the diversity of spatialized forms of economic coordination, and it tackles these by giving an operational definition to the concept of local governance. More precisely, it considers the mechanisms that explain the dynamics of local governance through the distinction between endogenous and exogenous dynamics, a distinction that accounts for the linkages between local governance and macro‐economic regulation. Then, in the second part, these theoretical and methodological principles are tested in an analysis of the evolution of local governance in relation to the process of industrial conversion in the aerospace‐defence industrial centre located in the Bordeaux conurbation. A partir d'une approche mobilisant une définition plurielle – institutionnelle, organisationnelle et géographique – de la proximité visant à endogénéiser l'espace dans l'analyse économique, cet article cherche à appréhender la dynamique des espaces économiques locaux à travers une relecture de la notion de gouvernance locale. Les auteurs insistent ainsi sur l'importance des processus de construction des compromis institutionnels pour expliquer les trajectoires et la diversité des coordinations économiques spatialisées, abordées en donnant une définition opérationnelle à la notion de gouvernance locale. Plus précisément, ils considérent les mécanismes explicatifs de la dynamique de la gouvernance locale à travers la distinction entre dynamiques endogène et exogène qui rend compte de l'articulation entre gouvernance locale et régulation macro‐économique. Puis, dans une seconde partie, ces principes théoriques et méthodologiques sont mis à l'épreuve pour analyser l'évolution de la gouvernance locale liée au processus de reconversion industrielle du pôle armement‐spatial‐défense de l'agglomération bordelaise.

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  • Jean‐Pierre Gilly & Frédéric Wallet, 2001. "Forms of Proximity, Local Governance and the Dynamics of Local Economic Spaces: The Case of Industrial Conversion Processes," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 25(3), pages 553-570, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:ijurrs:v:25:y:2001:i:3:p:553-570
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00329
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