TY - JOUR
AU - THRIFT, NIGEL
AB -  The literature on industrial districts seems to have reached something of an impasse. On one side the proponents of industrial districts sit around their camp fires, supposedly wildeyed with enthusiasm, talking flexible specialization and postfordism. On the other side are a series of supposedly grim-faced critics, shouting destructive comments about globalization and corporate networks from out of the mist. This paper is an attempt to break out of this often acrimonious impasse. We want to take the emergence of new localized industrial complexes seriously, but we want to set them firmly within a context of expanding global corporate networks. Accordingly, the paper is in four parts. In the first part of the paper, we summarize the key arguments of the localization thesis which predicts a return to industrial districts, and some of the major criticisms that have been made of the claim that there is a resurgence of the regional economy on a pervasive scale. In the second part of the paper, we attempt to reformulate the localization and globalization theses so as to provide a space for local agglomeration within growing global production filieres. In particular, we want to focus on Marshall’s idea of industrial atmosphere, indicating 
TI - Neo‐Marshallian Nodes in Global Networks *
JF - International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
DO - 10.1111/j.1468-2427.1992.tb00197.x
DA - 1992-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/neo-marshallian-nodes-in-global-networks-Qu2mi6y3ZE
SP - 571
VL - 16
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -