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processes on the home-base industrial commons; Theimportance of engaging with global and local connections;Manufacturing and offshoring trends in Italy and in the Venetoregion Methodology; Results and discussion; Industrialcommons strategic assets Conclusions; Chapter 7. Knowledge,systemic contribution and brokerage in industrial clustersIntroduction; Theoretical framework; Research questions;Empirical study; Context of the investigation; Questionnaire anddata collection; Methodology; Results Conclusions; Chapter 8.Local liabilities between immigrant and nativeentrepreneurship in clusters and global value chainsIntroduction; Liabilities in internationalization and globalvalue chain; The case of native and immigrantentrepreneurship in Prato; An emerging theory on localliabilities; Local liabilities and global value chains: someconclusions; Part III –Value chain activities: rethinking the roleof manufacturing and innovation Chapter 9. Manufacturingwhere art thou? Value chain organization and cluster firms’strategies between local and global Introduction;Manufacturing in global value chains and value generation:new trends; Firms’ strategies in clusters as local manufacturingsystems; Location of cluster firms’ manufacturing activitiesbetween local and global: An analysis of three Italian clusters;Methodology and analysis of clusters; The Montebelluna cluster;The furniture clusters; The Belluno eyewear cluster; Comparativeanalysis of company case studies Manufacturing (andgeography) still matters; Chapter 10. Networks of clusterswithin GVC: the case of the European ceramic tile districts inSpain and Italy Introduction; Clusters/IDs and GVCs: Issues ofgovernance and upgrading; Recent evolution of GVCs;Leadership, governance and upgrading in clusters and IDs; Therole of ‘home-grown multinationals’ as knowledgebroker/catalyst Empirical Analysis; Research setting in the tileindustry: Castellon, Spain, and Sassuolo, Italy; Global InnovationNetworks: Inter-Cluster Connection; Discussion of resultsConclusions; Chapter 11. The role of manufacturing withinindustrial districts: proposing and testing an innovativemethodology Introduction; The Bergamo textile and clothingdistrict; Methodology; Identification of the value chain stages;Identification of the elementary activities in each stage; Surveydesign; Definition of the population of companies in the district;Data collection; Development of the indicators Results;Stage-level analysis; Activity-level analysis; Linking the ID andthe GVC level of analysis Discussion; Company A; Company BConclusions; Chapter 12 New frontiers for competitivenessand growth in clusters and chains research The co-evolutionof clusters and global value chains; The increasingheterogeneity between and within IDs; Drivers in the co-evolutionof IDs and GVCs Novel approaches to investigate ID evolutionin GVCs; The role of key actors; Home-grown vs. foreign globallead firms; Cluster actors beyond global lead firms The futureof manufacturing (and upgrading); The value of manufacturingand its link with innovation; Manufacturing, services and newtechnologies The future of globalization; Index;

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Local Clusters in GlobalValue ChainsLinking Actors and Territories ThroughManufacturing and Innovation

Edited by Valentina De Marchi, University of Padua, Italy, Eleonora Di Maria, University of Padua, Italy and Gary Gereffi, Duke University, USA

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Chapter 1. Industrial Districts, Clusters and Global Value Chains: Toward an Integrated Framework

Valentina De Marchi, Eleonora Di Maria, and Gary Gereffi

Part I –Co-evolution of clusters and GVC

Chapter 2. Italian Industrial Districts Today: Between Decline and Openness to Global Value Chains

Elisa Giuliani and Roberta Rabellotti

Chapter 3. Evolutionary Trajectories of Industrial Districts in Global Value Chains

Valentina De Marchi, Gary Gereffi and Roberto Grandinetti

Chapter 4. Clusters, Industrial Districts and the Impact of Their Growing Intersection with Global Value Chains

Mario Davide Parrilli and Jiří Blažek

Part II –The role of lead firms in GVCs and clusters

Chapter 5. MNEs and clusters: the creation of place-anchored value chains

Fiorenza Belussi, Annalisa Caloffi and Silvia Rita Sedita

Chapter 6. The Global Value Chain and the Role of MNEs in Local Production Systems

Mariachiara Barzotto, Giancarlo Corò and Mario Volpe

Chapter 7. Knowledge, systemic contribution and brokerage in industrial clusters

Francesc Xavier Molina-Morales, Luis Martínez-Cháfer and José A. Belso-Martínez

Chapter 8. Local liabilities between immigrant and native entrepreneurship in clusters and global value chains

Simone Guercini

Part III –Value chain activities: rethinking the role of manufacturing and innovation

Chapter 9. Manufacturing where art thou? Value chain organization and cluster-firms strategies between local and

global

Marco Bettiol, Maria Chiarvesio, Eleonora Di Maria and Stefano Micelli

Chapter 10. Networks of clusters within GVC: the case of the European ceramic tile districts in Spain and Italy

Jose Luis Hervas-Oliver and Mario Davide Parrilli

Chapter 11. The role of manufacturing within industrial districts: proposing and testing an innovative methodology

Ruggero Golini and Albachiara Boffelli

Chapter 12 New frontiers for competitiveness and growth in clusters and chains research

Valentina De Marchi, Eleonora Di Maria and Gary Gereffi