Coopération et gouvernance  dans deux districts en transition
 (Cooperation and governance in two evolving industrial districts)

              Ariel Mendez*       et    Elena Ragazzi**

 *  Université de la Méditerranée      ** CERIS-CNR
                      LEST UMR 6123                 Via Real Collegio, 30
                      35 avenue Jules Ferry           10024 Moncalieri (TO)
  13626 Aix-en-Provence                      (Italia)
 cedex (France) (Italia)                   
                       ariel.mendez@univmed.fr            E.Ragazzi@ceris.cnr.it

Abstract. Industrial district are often described as systems of firms in static equilibrium, in which changes in the environment or in the power of stakeholders can break the cooperation mechanism and lead to the crisis and even death of the district. The authors analyse two industrial districts, Biella in Italy and Grasse in France, in which the worsening of competition has induced a deep evolution in the strategic behaviour of firms and in the asset of the district. Starting from this evidence they support the thesis that harder competition does not lead to a break in the district atmosphere, but to a change in its governance, in the mechanisms of interaction and level of commitment towards collective strategies.

Keywords:       industrial districts, cooperation, governance.

JEL Codes:        O18 ; R11

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