In recent times, the international competitive panorama has undergone intense rapid change, due especially to the presence of new competitors, new technology and new markets. These changes and their repercussions have had a significant impact on many industrial districts, which has left many of...

The aim of this work is to help gain a better understanding of the research conducted on territorial agglomerations of firms at a multidisciplinary level. To this end, an analysis was performed of the contents of the most significant scientific literature on economics, management, planning and...

En las últimas décadas los modelos productivos territoriales son objeto de debate científico por parte de los investigadores. Sin embargo, se observa una ausencia de trabajos previos de revisión bibliográfica. Para llenar este vacío hemos realizado un análisis de contenido entre 1998 y...

In recent decades, regional production patterns are the subject of scientific debate and study by researchers worldwide. However, despite its growing importance, there is a lack of previous literature review work. This gap advises us to perform a content analysis of the academic research done so...

This paper focuses on the effects of social capital on industrial clusters. Close networks with strong ties provide benefits for the companies involved in terms of knowledge flow; however, they can also have some negative effects such as knowledge redundancy and obsolescence. We propose an...

This article reviews ideas from the industrial district literature. In particular, it compares industrial district members and non-members in terms of value creation capacity. We have proposed a set of explanatory factors including common reputation, intensity of exchange and combination of...

Recent research into the clustering effect on firms has moved away from a simplistic view to a more complex approach. More realistic and complex causal relationships are now considered when analysing these territorial networks. Specifically, this paper attempts to analyse how cluster...

This research reunites some fundamental aspects for firms’ competitiveness: innovation, territory and absorptive capacity. The objective of this research consists of studying how the absorptive capacity influences the innovation process, centering on the context of an industrial district,...

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the debate on the role played by universities in industrial districts, faced with a situation of change in the competitive environment. We conduct a longitudinal study of a district with serious problems of competitiveness, using techniques of Social...