Zusammenfassung Industrie 4.0 wird in der öffentlichen Diskussion meist im Sinne einer disruptiven Veranderung thematisiert. Unsere Fallstudie bei einem Montagewerk der Automobilindustrie, in dem wir Elemente der Industrie 4.0 verwirklicht sehen, offenbart hingegen starke Kontinuitäten zu...

Purpose – This article seeks to reflect on the role of key concepts in foresight and futures work. The goal is to explore a set of concepts and link them to the effects they have in the world of foresight practice. It is argued that concepts order foresight practice and that though each...

Summary This paper analyses the impact of cluster structures on employment development in Germany according to the hypothesis of Porter (1998). It develops a new way of measuring the co-location of suppliers and buyers of intermediate goods in a region based on an input-output approach. The...

Purpose – External knowledge should not be limited in one zone or level. Researchers have paid more attention to the perspective of multilevel cluster networks. However, little research has empirically studied the various dimensions of external knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to study...

Purpose – The paper aims to explore the effects of geographic proximity among firms in value networks on service provision and service exchange. Design/methodology/approach – A case study of the offshore supply vessel shipbuilding and shipping cluster in the North-Western Møre region of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to: first, divide external knowledge into different levels and understand how these different levels of external knowledge create different knowledge networks. Second, explore the relation among different levels of external knowledge, different types of...

Purpose – The primary purpose of this study is to examine the relationships among a firm’s industrial cluster involvement, organizational learning and its ability to successfully adapt to external environment. Design/methodology/approach – Field survey research method was used, and data...

Purpose This paper aims to identify the relationships of both organizational isomorphism and knowledge search with the innovation performance of cluster enterprises. It also specifies the mechanism by which organizational isomorphism affects innovation performance, through knowledge search....