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| PATH BIFURCATION OF INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS BASED ON THE CO-EVOLUTION OF THE TRINITY OF “TECHNOLOGY-ORGANIZATION-REGION” |
| ZHU Hua-you1, PAN Wu-ni2, WANG Ji-ci3 |
1. College of Economics and management, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China;
2. College of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China;
3. College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China |
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Abstract The path bifurcation of industrial districts vicissitudes which based on co-evolution is a frontier issue in the field of evolutionary economic geography and industrial district at home and abroad. In the process of gradual globalization, these three factors which were known as technology, organization and region interact each other and evolve together, showing a triangle relationship among them. The paper analyzes the path bifurcation in both local and global context. There are two situations in the local context. The first situation is that the production technology paradigm remain unchanged:(1) If the interactive learning exists among enterprises in an industrial district, which will upgrade into an innovative one; (2) if an enterprise pays less attention to learning or solidified in the local network which causes the "locked-in" effect, the industrial district may be decline; (3) if the innovation networks are disappearing, industrial district may have a recession. The second situation is that the production technology paradigm changes:(1) if an enterprise in industrial district reforms its organization mode in time with the improvement of production efficiency and enlarge its market scope concurrently,the industrial district may upgrade; (2) if an enterprise has organizational inertia and can not change in time along with the variation of the technology paradigm, the industrial district may be recession; (3) if some large enterprises integrate a series of production links into interior of their own, then the number of small and medium-sized enterprises in industrial district decline, which may lead to the disappearance of industrial district form.
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Received: 15 December 2011
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2013, Vol. 28 
