GENERALIZING NEW INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS - A THEORETICAL AGENDA AND AN APPLICATION FROM A NONWESTERN ECONOMY

New industrial districts occur in a number of forms, some of which are not subsumable under the flexibly specialized, locally embedded, and endogeneously driven model based on the Italian case. In this paper, w e critique the industrial districts literature, focusing on the role o f the state, interdistrict mobility of labor, nonlocal externalities, and non-place embeddedness in district formation and character. We int roduce the notion of the satellite industrial district, comprised of b ranch operations of nonlocally based corporations, as an example of a rapidly growing industrial district distinct from Marshallian and and Italianate forms, and argue with evidence from South Korea that these types of districts may predominate, especially in developing countries .