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Life cycles, contingency, and agency: growth, development, and change in English industrial districts and clusters

Lookup NU author(s): Professor John Wilson

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Abstract

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.

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Author(s): Popp A, Wilson J

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Environment and Planning A

Year: 2007

Volume: 39

Issue: 12

Pages: 2975-2992

Print publication date: 01/01/2007

ISSN (print): 0308-518X

ISSN (electronic): 1472-3409

Publisher: Pion Ltd.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a38403

DOI: 10.1068/a38403

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