The Institutions of Local Development (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138720062 ISBN 13: 9781138720060

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

This title was first published in 2003. Development is a complex and heterogeneous phenomenon, driven by the expansion of one or more sectors and their influence on the others. It is the outcome of local interdependencies among firms, households and institutions which give rise to specific territorial patterns of local systems. Policies of development cannot therefore restrict themselves to undifferentiated intervention from the centre to the periphery, but must be able to stimulate and sustain endogenous bottom-up growth by means of specific programmes. Thus, individuals and organizations, public or private interact, take decisions and devise strategies in a context that is simultaneously co-operative and competitive. The first in a series, this volume brings together a team of leading international social scientists from the IGU study group on local development. Illustrated by a wide range of global case studies, it analyses what knowledge is required for industrial production and how best to organize this knowledge, embedded as it is in physical, human and social capital. It focuses on the formation of social capital and the various forms into which this may evolve, in particular, the sets of institutions which regulate relationships within and among firms.

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Fabio Sforzi, Ash Amin

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138720062
• ISBN 13: 9781138720060
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Sforzi Fabio, Amin Ash