Abstract
Drawing upon the evolutionary geography literature, we analyse how the North Staffordshire ceramics industrial district has begun to reverse a phase of ‘long decline’ (1979–2008). Our analysis is based upon a series of interviews with 25 Senior Managers from within the district. We document how the district has purposively begun to exploit its traditional strengths, with firms adopting new strategies, technologies and attitudes to governance (and collaboration) in response to exogenous challenges, thus raising the prospect of an ‘industrial renaissance’. The case demonstrates decline in old industrial regions is not inevitable and through ‘adaptation’, new trajectories are possible.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 489-507 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 22 Aug 2014 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2014 |
Keywords
- industrial districts
- evolutionary geography
- cluster life cycles
- adaptation
- related variety
- governance and ceramics
- Sustainability
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Rob Branston
- Management - Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
- Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy
- Marketing, Business & Society
- Centre for Business, Organisations and Society (CBOS)
- Tobacco Control Research Group (TCRG)
- Centre for 21st Century Public Health
Person: Research & Teaching, Core staff
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Phil Tomlinson
- Management - Professor
- Marketing, Business & Society
- Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy - Co-Director
- Made Smarter Innovation: Centre for People-Led Digitalisation
Person: Research & Teaching