What Makes Clusters Competitive

Author : Anil Hira
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780773589568

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What Makes Clusters Competitive? by Anil Hira Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Huggins,Hiro Izushi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191635984

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Competition, Competitive Advantage, and Clusters by Robert Huggins,Hiro Izushi Pdf

Harvard professor, Michael Porter has been one of the most influential figures in strategic management research over the last three decades. He infused a rigorous theoretical framework of industrial organization economics with the then still embryonic field of strategic management and elevated it to its current status as an academic discipline. Porter's outstanding career is also characterized by its cross-disciplinary nature. Following his most important work on strategic management, he then made a leap to the policy side and dealt with a completely different set of analytical units. More recently he has made a foray into inner city development, environmental regulations, and health care services. Throughout these explorations Porter has maintained his integrative approach, seeking a road that links management case studies and the general model building of mainstream economics. With expert contributors from a range of disciplines including strategic management, economic development, economic geography, and planning, this book assesses the contribution Michael Porter has made to these respective disciplines. It clarifies the sources of tension and controversy relating to all the major strands of Porter's work, and provides academics, students, and practitioners with a critical guide for the application of Porter's models. The book highlights that while many of the criticisms of Porter's ideas are valid, they are almost an inevitable outcome for a scholar who has sought to build bridges across wide disciplinary valleys. His work has provided others with a set of frameworks to explore in more depth the nature of competition, competitive advantage, and clusters from a range of vantage points.

Author : Johannes Bröcker,Dirk Dohse,Rüdiger Soltwedel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540247609

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Innovation Clusters and Interregional Competition by Johannes Bröcker,Dirk Dohse,Rüdiger Soltwedel Pdf

The world's leading experts contribute to our understanding of regional innovation, cluster formation and the factors that influence regional productivity and innovative performance. The text improves our understanding of the reasons why, how and where innovation clusters emerge, as well as the factors that determine their respective success or failure. In doing so, it provides a timely and comprehensive picture on innovation, location, networks and clusters as important means in an environment of intensifying interregional competition. The book is written for professional researchers as well as for students and practitioners in politics, business and consultancy.

Author : Stuart A. Rosenfeld
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788174353

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Exports, Competitiveness, and Synergy in Appalachian Industry Clusters by Stuart A. Rosenfeld Pdf

This report analyzes 7 industry sectors pre-selected by the Appalachian Regional Comm. on the basis of their importance to the region's economy and export potential. The 7 clusters include: miscellaneous plastics parts in Northwest PA and OH, electronic components in NY, household furniture in Al and MS, knitting mills in NC and VA, medical devices in Southwest PA, industrial machinery in NC and SC, and environmental technologies in Eastern TN. The targets of the analysis are small and mid-sized manufacturing enterprises which have been slow to modernize and hesitant to export, and which comprise a potential source of growth. Tables and figures.

Author : Ron Martin,Michael Kitson,Peter Tyler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136012549

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Regional Competitiveness by Ron Martin,Michael Kitson,Peter Tyler Pdf

There is now a wide spread interest in regions as a key focus in the organization and governance of economic growth and wealth creation. This important book considers the factors that influence and shape the competitive performance of regions. This is not just an issue of academic interest and debate, but also of increasing policy deliberation and action. However, as the readings in this book make clear, the very idea of regional competitiveness is itself complex and contentious. Many academics and policy makers have used the concept without fully considering what is meant by the term and how it can be measured. Policy formulation has tended to rush ahead of understanding and analysis, and the purpose of this book is to close this important gap in understanding. This book was previously published as a special issue of Regional Studies.

Author : Miroslav Zizka,Petra Rydvalova
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030799076

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Innovation and Performance Drivers of Business Clusters by Miroslav Zizka,Petra Rydvalova Pdf

This book highlights the importance of clusters for the competitiveness of companies and is divided into three interrelated parts. The first part focuses on localization economics, cluster theory, the role of innovation, and innovation partnerships in cluster formations. The second part of the volume presents original research carried out from 2018 to 2020 in the field of both natural clusters and organized clusters. In addition to examining the impact of cluster membership, the contributions also focus on additional factors that may affect the financial performance of companies. In the third part, an additional survey and case studies are presented, to examine the specifics of family businesses in selected industrial districts of the textile, glass, and jewelry industries. A broader overview of the development of dominant industries in the selected districts is provided, for an easier understanding of the relationships of competition among companies and locations in the business clusters. The book evaluates implications for microeconomic and macroeconomic policies and provides proposals for corporate inter-organizational behavior. This volume addresses scholars and researchers of economics, business, and management, as well as policy-makers and practitioners interested in a better understanding of innovation and performance drivers of business clusters.

Author : Saša Šarić
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783834935540

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Competitive Advantages through Clusters by Saša Šarić Pdf

The world over, clusters are home to leading firms and institutions that compete on the edge of technology. They can be found in developed and developing countries alike and comprise such famous ones as Silicon Valley, London ‟s financial center, ceramic tile and fashion in north Italy, wine in Bordeaux, automotive in Stuttgart and Munich, software in Bangalore, and manufacturing in China ‟s Pearl-river delta. Today they are studied by a variety of scholars from different fields including economists, social scientists, and strategists, but also by a growing number of business practitioners and policy makers.3 As a result, knowledge on the capacity of clusters to promote regional economic development and national prosperity and the role of local industrial policy in creating new clusters has increased rapidly in recent years The present research is best described as being exploratory in nature. It elaborates and extends existing theory. By doing so, it takes up a distinct position within scientific theory that is defined by three levels of analysis: (1) the meta-methodological level, (2) the methodological level, and (3) the theoretical level.

Author : Ö. Öz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230512467

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Clusters and Competitive Advantage by Ö. Öz Pdf

This book aims to clarify the link between geographic clustering and international competitiveness in light of the Turkish experience, a subject that is high on the agendas of researchers as well as policy makers and strategic planners. The key findings of the study are discussed with respect to the recent debates on clusters to provide a full account of what the Turkish experience, when looked from the viewpoint of the strategic management discipline, offers to further intellectual thinking on clusters.

Author : Raj Nallari,Breda Griffith
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464800498

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Clusters of Competitiveness by Raj Nallari,Breda Griffith Pdf

Competition, competitiveness, innovation and growth are inherently linked. This book covers the main ideas underlying competitiveness and its applications, drawing lessons for developing economies and relevant policy recommendations.

Author : Mario Davide Parrilli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317682288

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The Competitiveness of Clusters in Globalized Markets by Mario Davide Parrilli Pdf

The debate on the competitiveness of local and regional clusters in the current globalized markets is a priority as globalization puts pressure on such production systems and forces them to find new ways of competition and sustainability. Many traditional clusters may be constrained by the growth of transnational value chains and production networks that benefit from cheap resources and workforce as well as softer regulations that may be reaped in other parts of the world. This situation is even more palpable with the internationalization of innovation networks that may replace the former relevant regional and national innovation systems. This volume discusses the features of successful clusters and the threats and opportunities they currently face in such globalized environment and offers some perspectives and solutions to sustain the resilience of local and regional production systems. This book was published as a special issue of European Planning Systems.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264031838

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OECD Reviews of Regional Innovation Competitive Regional Clusters National Policy Approaches by OECD Pdf

This report analyses the objectives, targeting, instruments and inter-governmental role sharing used by 26 regional cluster programmes in 14 OECD countries.

Author : Bernard Ganne,Yveline Lecler
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814280129

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Asian Industrial Clusters, Global Competitiveness and New Policy Initiatives by Bernard Ganne,Yveline Lecler Pdf

Provides a comprehensive overview of what Asian industrial clusters might teach us. Based on empirical surveys and interviews conducted in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Japan, this title collects studies that were first debated at an international workshop in Lyon.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1013786897

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Clusters for Competitiveness by Anonim Pdf

Author : C. Jayachandran,Michael Thorpe,Ram Subramanian,Vishnuprasad Nagadevara
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000083798

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Business Clusters by C. Jayachandran,Michael Thorpe,Ram Subramanian,Vishnuprasad Nagadevara Pdf

The book contains a selection of papers on business clusters in its multiple perspectives. It has evolved from the research symposium organized by the The Society for Global Business and Economic Development (SGBED), an international group of academicians, at Dubai during January 2009. It begins with an introduction to the concept of clusters, and then examines their link to a host of strategic issues, such as their nexus to competitive advantage, their performance vis-à-vis their competitors who are not similarly agglomerated, and the challenges in measuring the performance of clusters. Regional economic clusters have serious policy implications. Governments, local as well as national, have used clusters as the unit for investment and infrastructure upgrading policies. It focuses on the normative aspects as well as practices and provides pointers on how public policies can help the development and growth of regional economic clusters. With numerous examples and cases from a host countries such as Dubai, Mexico, Spain and Karnataka (India), the book is a must read for all students of business strategy.

Author : Yossi Sheffi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262305099

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Logistics Clusters by Yossi Sheffi Pdf

How logistics clusters can create jobs while providing companies with competitive advantage. Why is Memphis home to hundreds of motor carrier terminals and distribution centers? Why does the tiny island-nation of Singapore handle a fifth of the world's maritime containers and half the world's annual supply of crude oil? Which jobs can replace lost manufacturing jobs in advanced economies? Some of the answers to these questions are rooted in the phenomenon of logistics clusters—geographically concentrated sets of logistics-related business activities. In this book, supply chain management expert Yossi Sheffi explains why Memphis, Singapore, Chicago, Rotterdam, Los Angeles, and scores of other locations have been successful in developing such clusters while others have not. Sheffi outlines the characteristic “positive feedback loop” of logistics clusters development and what differentiates them from other industrial clusters; how logistics clusters “add value” by generating other industrial activities; why firms should locate their distribution and value-added activities in logistics clusters; and the proper role of government support, in the form of investment, regulation, and trade policy. Sheffi also argues for the most important advantage offered by logistics clusters in today's recession-plagued economy: jobs, many of them open to low-skilled workers, that are concentrated locally and not “offshorable.” These logistics clusters offer what is rare in today's economy: authentic success stories. For this reason, numerous regional and central governments as well as scores of real estate developers are investing in the development of such clusters. View a trailer for the book at: http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/22284-logistics-clusters-yossi-sheffi