Life Cycles, Contingency, and Agency
Growth, Development, and Change in English Industrial Districts and Clusters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4139899 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Popp (0000-0001-9603-7681, University of London), John F Wilson (0000-0001-7728-2892, University of Lancashire), John Wilson (0000-0001-8488-3020, University of Lancashire) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 2975-2992 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a38403 |
| OpenAlex | W1986119944 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 31 |
Responding to a recent special issue of Environment and Planning A on decline in mature industrial regions, the paper summarises and presents recent historical work on English industrial districts and regions. The paper argues that historical methods, informed by cognate social sciences, allow us to place the concepts of contingency and lock-in on a firmer footing. The paper presents a nondeterministic life-cycle model of industrial districts
Contingency · Contingency plan · Economic geography · Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Management · Nondeterministic algorithm · Operations research · Regional science · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Regional resilience and development · Rural development and sustainability
Cooperation and the Organisation of Production and Markets
Regional resilience
Unintended Cluster Emergence
Knowledge Flows and Industrial Clusters
The Trees of the Forest
Hierarchical Clusters
Exogenous Shocks and Cluster Change in the Howrah Foundries
Locked-in or ready for climate change mitigation? Agri-food networks as structures for dairy-beef farming
Fragmented or engaged pluralism in economic geography
Conceptualizing Cluster Evolution
Limits to Locking-out through Restructuring
Cluster Life Cycles
Globalization and the Development of Industrial Clusters
Local meets global
Network interlocks
Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography-Rethinking Regional Path Dependence
Cultural Lock-in and Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The second industrial divide
Firms, Markets and Economic Change
Networks and organizations
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism
Industrial districts as organizational environments
Conceptualizing economies and their geographies
The markets are back
The true potter’
Personal Capitalism and British Industrial Decline
New Manufacturing Plant Formation, Clustering and Locational Externalities in 1930s Britain
Industrial Estates and British Industrial Development, 1897-1939
Family Firms and Business Networks
Complexity, Community Structure and Competitive Advantage within the Yorkshire Woollen Industry, c.1700–1850
Spatial' relationships? Towards a reconceptualization of embedded ness
Rethinking Change in Old Industrial Regions
The first industrial region
Historical Alternatives to Mass Production
From 'Growth Centre' to 'Cluster
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,94 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |