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Accounting for Variations in the Performance of Industrial Districts: The Case of Baden‐Württemberg*

1996; Wiley; Volume: 20; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1468-2427.1996.tb00317.x

1468-2427

Udo Staber,

Local Government Finance and Decentralization

International Journal of Urban and Regional ResearchVolume 20, Issue 2 p. 299-316 Full Access Accounting for Variations in the Performance of Industrial Districts: The Case of Baden-Württemberg* UDO STABER, UDO STABER Faculty of Administration, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB E3B5A3, Canada.Search for more papers by this author UDO STABER, UDO STABER Faculty of Administration, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB E3B5A3, Canada.Search for more papers by this author First published: June 1996 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.1996.tb00317.xCitations: 65 * Research for this paper was supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. I am grateful to Basu Sharma, Jörg Sydow, and two anonymous reviewers for comments and suggestions. Thanks also to the Stadtarchiv Reutlingen for providing access to historical documents. 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