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Author: Martin Perry
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-05-19
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1134300204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing evidence from high and low income economies, as well as case studies showing the reasons for successful clusters, this book is aimed at students of business location, policy-makers and managers seeking a real-world understanding of clustering.
Author: C. Jayachandran
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2020-11-29
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1000083799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Panos G. Piperopoulos
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-29
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1317142519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business Clusters, Panos Piperopoulos provides a comprehensive introduction to what entrepreneurship is all about, how and why entrepreneurs innovate and how innovation systems operate. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) constitute the backbone of most economies, so the author examines their characteristics and the crucial role played by the owners and entrepreneurs who innovate to ensure the survival and continued growth of their firms. He also includes the particular phenomena that arise where the entrepreneurs are either female or from ethnic groups, or where the context is that of a developing region or country. The importance of co-operative strategic alliances and networks between firms is discussed, along with how these strengthen SMEs' competitiveness. The concept of open innovation has been proposed as a new paradigm for the management of innovation and the author presents a hypothetical model for enhancing the competitiveness and performance of SMEs by properly utilizing employees' creative potential, emotional intelligence, tacit knowledge and innovative ideas. The contemporary model of business clusters, involving partnerships with competitors, agents, universities, research centres and local, regional and national governments is discussed. The ways, means and methods through which SMEs' competitiveness and innovation can be enhanced within business clusters is illustrated by cases that identify four types of SMEs, that behave differently and play different roles in the networks and clusters of which they form a part, but all of whose performance and competitiveness is a function of their position and role in the wider scheme of things.
Author: Michael A. Witt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 754
ISBN-13: 0199654921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Handbook explores institutional variations across the political economies of different societies within Asia. It includes empirical analysis of 13 major Asian business systems between India and Japan, and examines these in a comparative, historical, and theoretical context.
Author: Aknolt Kristian Pakpahan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-03-26
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1474224970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique and thoroughly researched book examines small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia, focusing on Indonesian government policy for developing industrial clusters. Aknolt Kristian Pakpahan elaborates on such challenges as a lack of political coordination as well as cultural factors for the long-term growth of business clusters. He uses case studies of the footwear and ceramic industries to expand on the theoretical research, resulting in a fascinating and useful text for researchers of industrial development.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2005-08-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9264007113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book looks at the importance and potential of cluster initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe. Existing clusters are mapped, recent policy advances are described and conclusions are drawn on the potential of business clusters to foster economic growth.
Author: Miroslav Zizka
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-08-31
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 3030799077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: John F. Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-07-01
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1000609286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndustrial Clusters shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic of industrial clusters, with a particular focus on clustering in the UK, bringing together a chronological coverage of the phenomenon. This set of original essays by a group of leading business and industrial historians offers fresh perspectives about clusters and clustering. A primary emphasis of the collection is how knowledge is generated and disseminated across a cluster, and whether these processes stimulated innovation and consequently longer-term sustainability. This analysis also prompts questions about which unit of analysis to examine, from the entrepreneurs and firms they created through to the industry as a whole and district in which they are located, or whether one should look outside the region for explanatory factors. Covering regions as diverse as North Wales, the Scottish Highlands, the City of London, the Potteries, Sheffield and Lancashire, the essays have been channelled to provide a detailed understanding of these issues. The editors have also provided a challenging Conclusion that suggests a new research agenda that could well unravel some of the mysteries associated with clustering. This edited collection will be of interest to international researchers, academics and students in the fields of business and management history, innovation, industrialisation and clusters.
Author: Martin Perry
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-05-19
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1134300190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClusters of specialized businesses are being promoted around the world, aided by high-profile examples such as Silicon Valley. Using evidence from high- and low-income economies, as well as detailed case studies that show the special conditions behind successful clusters, this book provides a new vantage point on this high-interest topic, making it ideal for students of business location, policy-makers and managers seeking a real-world understanding of clustering.
Author: Nataliya Klimova
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-08-06
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 3319211099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book aims to bind together latest theories on creation of innovative clusters and operating modalities, empirical analysis, and several new formal models describing cluster formation and dynamics. Another objective of the book is the analysis of the role of the innovative activities on the economic performances of the firm during the crisis, focusing the attention on the complementarities existing among the innovative dimensions, hypothesizing a positive role of integrated innovative strategies in increasing the firm resilience to the challenges brought by the economic crisis. The part of empirical analysis contains a comprehensive survey of different international legislation sources useful for deep studies of influential factors and peculiarities. In this book international statistical reports on economic activity and business cases of successful application of clusters model are described for Western Europe and BRIC. This book also presents authors findings in the domain of mathematical and simulation modeling of the major elements of cluster and innovation management.
