What Makes Clusters Competitive?: Cases from the Global Wine Industry
While global competitiveness is increasingly invoked as necessary for economic success stories, there are few answers available about how it can be achieved or maintained. The idea of stimulating industries to spur on economies is often proposed, but industrial policy can be seen as a boondoggle of government spending, and theorists of globalization are doubtful that such efforts can succeed in a world of fragmented supply chains. What Makes Clusters Competitive? tests fundamental theoretical hypotheses about what makes industries competitive in a globalized world by using the wine industries of several countries as case studies: Extremadura (Spain), Tuscany (Italy), South Australia, Chile, and British Columbia (Canada), Taking into account historical and location-specific characteristics, and drawing out policy lessons for other regions that would like to promote their industries, this volume demonstrates the value of applying cluster theory to understand market forces, while also describing the forces underlying the development of the wine industry in a range of different settings. An excellent resource for those interested in what makes industries succeed or struggle, What Makes Clusters Competitive? offers guidance for policymakers and the private sector on how to promote local industries. Contributors include David Aylward, Alexis Bwenge, Sara Daniele, F.J. Mesías Díaz, Christian Felzenstein, Husam Gabreldar, F. Pulido García, Sarah Giest, Elisa Giuliani, Andy Hira, Mike Howlett, A.F. Pulido Moreno, and Oriana Perrone.
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What Makes Clusters Competitive?: Cases from the Global Wine Industry
While global competitiveness is increasingly invoked as necessary for economic success stories, there are few answers available about how it can be achieved or maintained. The idea of stimulating industries to spur on economies is often proposed, but industrial policy can be seen as a boondoggle of government spending, and theorists of globalization are doubtful that such efforts can succeed in a world of fragmented supply chains. What Makes Clusters Competitive? tests fundamental theoretical hypotheses about what makes industries competitive in a globalized world by using the wine industries of several countries as case studies: Extremadura (Spain), Tuscany (Italy), South Australia, Chile, and British Columbia (Canada), Taking into account historical and location-specific characteristics, and drawing out policy lessons for other regions that would like to promote their industries, this volume demonstrates the value of applying cluster theory to understand market forces, while also describing the forces underlying the development of the wine industry in a range of different settings. An excellent resource for those interested in what makes industries succeed or struggle, What Makes Clusters Competitive? offers guidance for policymakers and the private sector on how to promote local industries. Contributors include David Aylward, Alexis Bwenge, Sara Daniele, F.J. Mesías Díaz, Christian Felzenstein, Husam Gabreldar, F. Pulido García, Sarah Giest, Elisa Giuliani, Andy Hira, Mike Howlett, A.F. Pulido Moreno, and Oriana Perrone.
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What Makes Clusters Competitive?: Cases from the Global Wine Industry

What Makes Clusters Competitive?: Cases from the Global Wine Industry

by Anil Hira
What Makes Clusters Competitive?: Cases from the Global Wine Industry

What Makes Clusters Competitive?: Cases from the Global Wine Industry

by Anil Hira

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Overview

While global competitiveness is increasingly invoked as necessary for economic success stories, there are few answers available about how it can be achieved or maintained. The idea of stimulating industries to spur on economies is often proposed, but industrial policy can be seen as a boondoggle of government spending, and theorists of globalization are doubtful that such efforts can succeed in a world of fragmented supply chains. What Makes Clusters Competitive? tests fundamental theoretical hypotheses about what makes industries competitive in a globalized world by using the wine industries of several countries as case studies: Extremadura (Spain), Tuscany (Italy), South Australia, Chile, and British Columbia (Canada), Taking into account historical and location-specific characteristics, and drawing out policy lessons for other regions that would like to promote their industries, this volume demonstrates the value of applying cluster theory to understand market forces, while also describing the forces underlying the development of the wine industry in a range of different settings. An excellent resource for those interested in what makes industries succeed or struggle, What Makes Clusters Competitive? offers guidance for policymakers and the private sector on how to promote local industries. Contributors include David Aylward, Alexis Bwenge, Sara Daniele, F.J. Mesías Díaz, Christian Felzenstein, Husam Gabreldar, F. Pulido García, Sarah Giest, Elisa Giuliani, Andy Hira, Mike Howlett, A.F. Pulido Moreno, and Oriana Perrone.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780773589568
Publisher: McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date: 11/01/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Anil Hira is professor of political science at Simon Fraser University.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables ix

Acknowledgments xiii

1 Explaining the Success of Clusters: A Framework for the Study of Global Wine Industry Dynamics Anil Hira Sarah Giest Mike Howlett 3

2 Development of the Global Wine Industry Anil Hira Husam Gabreldar 57

3 The Wine Industry in British Columbia: A Closed Wine But Showing Potential Anil Hira Alexis Bwenge 85

4 Competitiveness of the Wine Industry in Extremadura, Spain Francisco J. Mesías Francisco Pulido Angel F. Pulido 127

5 Understanding Competitiveness: The Chilean Wine Cluster Christian Felzensztein 165

6 The Wine Industry in Bolgheri-Val di Cornia, Italy: Facing the Crisis with Success Elisa Giuliani Oriana Perrone Sara Daniele 185

7 Competitiveness in the Australian Wine Industry: A Story of Loss and Renewal David Aylward 207

8 Summary of Findings and Policy Lessons Anil Hira 237

Appendix 247

Contributors 257

Index 261

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