Diversity, not specialization: The ties that bind the (new) industrial district

Contributions to Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 107-122

  Sabel, Charles F ^a  

^a The Earth Institute at Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 4644269978     PISSN: 14311933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-50007-7_7     Document Type: Article

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