Industrial path creation, a business case approach
Daniel Alonso Group from steelmaking to wind power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6043736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Guillermo Antuña (0000-0003-0530-9245, Universitat de Barcelona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 886-912 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Business History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6791 • E-ISSN: 1743-7938 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00076791.2024.2304791 |
| OpenAlex | W4391355887 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 54 |
The need for European reindustrialisation has boosted the debate on regional path creation. Through a business case approach, this work contributes to this literature by exploring the history of Daniel Alonso Group, a paradigmatic example of an entire sectorial trajectory. Born in the steelmaking region of Asturias (Spain) in 1957 as a small metalworking workshop, DAG is nowadays represented worldwide by Windar Renovables, a top firm in the wind power sector. DAG reflects the 3-stage cumulative process that allowed the Asturian metalworking sector to survive industrial restructuring and create new development paths: (1) birth around the steelmaking industry, (2) endogenous growth based on self-reinforcing dynamics (3) delocking, diversification, and international expansion moving towards Industry 4.0
Business · Business history · Corporate group · Economics · Group (periodic table) · Industrial engineering · Industrial organization · Management · Manufacturing engineering · Metallurgy · Operations management · Path (computing) · Physics · Power (physics) · Steelmaking · Computer Science · Engineering · Innovation Policy and RD · Materials Science · Regional Development and Policy · Regional resilience and development
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |