
The Institutions of Local Development
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 21. December 2017
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-138-72006-0 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
449 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-72006-0 (9781138720060)
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Persons
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Content
List of figures, List of Tables, List of Contributors, Preface, Part I: PLACE-SPECIFICITY OF COMPETITIVENESS, Part II: TRUST SHAPING COLLECTIVE ACTION, Part III: SOCIAL CAPITAL IN THE PATHWAYS OF LOCAL DEVELOPMENT, Index