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Oligarchic place leadership and resistance to change in industrial districts

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  • Marco Bellandi
  • Monica Plechero
  • Erica Santini

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The capability of local productive systems to react positively to disruptive challenges, entering new paths of development, depends on the presence of supportive local institutions, organizations and actors. A quite recent literature points out the key support given to path transformation by sets of local actors expressing a place leadership (PL). With a focus on industrial districts (IDs), characterized by a manufacturing specialization and a decentralized business organization based on SMEs, the paper aims at exploring conditions of a PL resisting change. We develop a conceptual frame that enables the identification of three different types of PL: open PL, corporate PL, and oligarchic PL. Specifically, oligarchic PL allows to reflect on models of developments and structural conditions where changes to meet disruptive challenges could be intentionally obstructed. In this regard, the paper provides some considerations and examples on how a model deviating from the canonical ID of local development and expressing an oligarchic PL could drive local productive systems through lock-in conditions.

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  • Marco Bellandi & Monica Plechero & Erica Santini, 2018. "Oligarchic place leadership and resistance to change in industrial districts," Working Papers - Economics wp2018_18.rdf, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa.
    • Handle: RePEc:frz:wpaper:wp2018_18.rdf
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    1. Albers, Hans-Hermann & Suwala, Lech, 2020. "Räumliches Unternehmensengagement (Corporate Spatial Responsibility) und Ortsführung (Place Leadership) in Kleinstädten. Perspektiven für eine neue Ortsführung? Eine Zusammenführung von zwei Diskursen," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, pages 63-84.
    2. Albers, Hans-Hermann & Suwala, Lech, 2021. "Place leadership and corporate spatial responsibilities," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, pages 108-130.

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    Keywords

    Industrial District; Place Leadership; Lock-in Conditions; ID’ Life Cycle;
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    JEL classification:

    • L60 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - General
    • O14 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
    • O30 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - General

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