Industrial districts and globalization: Learning and innovation in local and global production systems

Business Networks in Clusters and Industrial Districts: The Governance of the Global Value Chain

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 246-265

  Belussi, Fiorenza ^a   Asheim, Bjørn T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84880415106     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203875551     Document Type: Chapter

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