Growing but not Developing: Long‐Term Effects of Clustering in the Peruvian Clothing Industry

Compared with manufacturing locational analysis, relatively few scholarly researchers have demonstrated serious interest in examining the forces responsible for same store retail clustering in large cities. The centrifugal and centripetal forces influencing retail locations were once the subject of serious intellectual debate. Same product retail store (SPRS) clusters, which were once common in the retail landscape of Manhattan and other Western primary cities, are now in severe decline. However, there remain modern megacities where similar retail store cluster phenomenon is resurgent. This paper attempts to examine the formation and sustainability of the SPRS clustering phenomenon illustrated by Bangkok, Thailand. The authors find 14,468 SPRS permanent retail outlets located in 299 clusters. The data were mapped and then classified according to the North American Industrial Classification System. Locational Gini coefficients were computed to permit an analysis of the city's retail clustering within and between its fifty administrative districts.

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 97%

The Formation and Sustainability of same Product Retail Store Clusters in A Modern Mega City

Mandhachitara

Shannon

2016

“…Therefore, LPS development path is largely determined by the institutional environment of the territory, which is the product of specific governance dynamics that give rise to institutional inertias, with differential effects on the system's trajectory (collective: articulated and inclusive policies, or individual: institutional fragmentation and power asymmetries) (Lozano ; Visser et al . ).…”

Section: Local Productive Systems (Lps): the Territorial Focus Of Ecomentioning

confidence: 97%

The Governance of Local Productive Systems: Co‐Ordination Problems Regarding Pyrotechnic Production in Tultepec, Mexico

Durán

Ortega

2016

This paper examines the governance of local productive systems by articulating two fundamental concepts from geographical institutionalism: path dependency and contingency. We identify internal and external contingencies that have significantly impacted the development trajectory of pyrotechnic production in Tultepec, Mexico, giving rise to governance dynamics characterised by a lack of co‐ordination among local producer associations. Consequently, the main local institutional arrangements are controlled by particular interest groups. This limits the participation of local actors in defining national regulations relating to pyrotechnic production, resulting in a vertical/centralised law mainly defined by the state. We argue that improving the governance of the pyrotechnic productive system in Tultepec requires the co‐ordination of private and public actors at different territorial scales, in order to build up an inclusive regulatory framework which can take into consideration the diversity of local producers.

“…For the case of developing countries, there are very few examples of industrial districts (the Gamarra cluster is one of them, see Visser ; Visser et al . ). It is more often case that observed spatial concentrations of informal enterprises do not correspond to industrial districts, and consequently may not have the same potential to generate positive agglomeration economies (Moreno‐Monroy ). Demand‐related factors can also drive agglomeration.…”

Section: Theoretical Predictions On the Intra‐metropolitan Agglomeratmentioning

confidence: 97%

Intra‐Metropolitan Agglomeration of Formal and Informal Manufacturing Activity: Evidence from Cali, Colombia

Moreno-Monroy

García²

2015

This paper compares the agglomeration patterns of formal versus informal manufacturing activity within a metropolitan area of an emergent economy. We use census manufacturing enterprise-level data for the metropolitan area of Cali for 2005 to calculate the degree of spatial agglomeration and co-agglomeration by means of M-functions. We also conduct spatial analysis on the distribution of formal and informal enterprises by means of kernel density mapping of selected industries. We find that although for the industrial sector as a whole informal enterprises display higher agglomeration intensity than formal enterprises of similar size, this is not the case for each individual industry. We also find that significant agglomeration of both formal and informal enterprises of similar size in the same industry does not necessarily imply that they agglomerate in the same areas of the city.