Big firms, long arms, wide shoulders: The 'hub-and-spoke' industrial district in the Seattle region

被引：74

作者：

Gray, M

Golob, E

Markusen, A

机构：

[1] Proj. on Reg. and Indust. Economics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

来源：

REGIONAL STUDIES | 1996年 / 30卷 / 07期

关键词：

industrial districts; regional growth; 'hub-and-spoke'; Seattle;

D O I：

10.1080/00343409612331349948

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Rapidly growing regions exhibit distinct varieties of industrial district structure. One variant is the hub-and-spoke form, where an industry and its suppliers cluster around one or several core firms. The hub-and-spoke district is distinct from the flexibly specialized district, its successs a function of dominant firm market power and strategy rather than networking. Hub-and-spoke districts are capable of generating high regional growth rates and good income distributions, but may render a region vulnerable to cyclical and secular decline and/or to the crowding out of noncompeting, newer sectors. The paper analyses the Seattle region as a hub-and-spoke district.

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页码：651 / 666

页数：16