...Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver; Juan Antonio Antonio Márquez García; García-Chamizo F.; Ronald Rojas-Alvarado Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore and conducts a critical literature review to answer a fundamental question in the industrial district literature: are clusters and industrial...

...Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver Purpose This paper aims to understand the contribution of research and transfer institutes (RTIs) to digitising in traditional Marshallian industrial districts (IDs). This study answers how to digitise small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in IDs capitalising on RTIs...

...Edoardo Baldoni; Lisa De Propris; Dimitri Storai Purpose This paper aims to analyse to what extent Italian industrial districts (IDs), with their traditional manufacturing specialization, experimented a territorial servitisation process in terms of spread of specifically professional...

...Marco Bettiol; Chiara Burlina; Maria Chiarvesio; Eleonora Di Maria Purpose Within the theoretical framework of global value chains (GVCs), much importance has been given to industrial districts (IDs) and their role as localized manufacturing systems. The regionalization of GVC has opened new...

... advantages are scrutinized and specific complementary findings to Smith are highlighted. Third, Marshall’s industrial districts are investigated, as they constitute the linchpin of numerous latter approaches on location competitiveness. Fourth, the Keynesian perspective is considered as far as the role...

...Alessandro Pagano; Elisa Carloni; Serena Galvani; Roberta Bocconcelli Purpose This paper aims to provide a contribution on the diffusion of Industry 4 (I4.0)-related knowledge in industrial districts (IDs). The main goal is to examine the dissemination of I4.0 knowledge, exploring the main...

...Marco Bettiol; Mauro Capestro; Valentina De Marchi; Eleonora Di Maria; Silvia Rita Sedita Purpose This paper aims to explore if firms located in industrial districts (IDs) have different adoption paths concerning Industry 4.0 technologies and get different results with respect to other similar...