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 aim of this paper is to discuss the potential use of the cluster model in the context of developing countries. Although we know this is by no means a new issue, we are convinced that some contributions can still be added to the discussion. Particularly, we focus on two questions: the first...

The aim of this article is to measure the effect of shared resources on individual firm performance. Using the Industrial District as a definition of the interorganizational context, the authors propose a model that includes a set of factors that are associated with the endowment of external...