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Industrial districts as organizational environments: Resources, networks and structures

Royal Holloway, University of London

Steve Toms

University of York

John Wilson

University of Central Lancashire

The article combines economic and sociological perspectives on organizations in order to gain a better understanding of the forces shaping the structures of industrial districts (IDs) and the organizations of which they are constituted.To effect the combination, the resource-based view (RBV) and resource-dependency theory are combined to explain the evolution of different industry structures.The article thus extends work by Toms and Filatotchev by spatializing consideration of resource distribution and resource dependence.The article has important implications for conventional interpretations in the fields of business and organizational history and for the main areas of theory hitherto considered separately, particularly the Chandlerian model of corporate hierarchy as contrasted with the alternative of clusters of small firms coordinated by networks.

Key Words: clustering • dynamics • resource-based views • resource dependency

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