Industrial districts, social cohesion and economic decline in Italy
研究了意大利工业区中社区与企业的互动如何影响经济活力，指出领导企业替代和成本削减策略可能破坏系统，但公共监管可提供替代路径。
The economic and social vitality of industrial districts (IDs) depends on the interaction between two major sub-systems: a community of people and a population of firms. A range of circumstances determined inconsistencies between the rationales of these two sub-systems. The emergence of leader firms that substitute the ID as coordinating instances and cost scrapping as a strategy that bypasses quality enhancement undermine the ID as a system. The paper contends that this outcome is not the only possible one. An alternative would require a regulatory—as opposed to merely permissive—action of public actors.