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Entrepreneurship: The Role of Clusters Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence from Germany
Rocha, Hector; Sternberg, Rolf - In: Small Business Economics 24 (2005) 3, pp. 267-292
This paper is about the impact of clusters on entrepreneurship at the regional level. Defining entrepreneurship as the … creation of new organisations and clusters as a geographically proximate group of interconnected firms and associated … institutions in related industries, this paper aims to answer three research questions : first, do clusters matter to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005722513
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Public Support to Clusters: A Firm Level Study of French “Local Productive Systems”
Martin, Philippe; Mayer, Thierry; Mayneris, Florian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper analyzes empirically a public policy promoting industrial clusters in France. Cluster policies have become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661530
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Clusters of Entrepreneurship
Glaeser, Edward; Kerr, William; Ponzetto, Giacomo - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2009
Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries within cities, but there is little consensus on why this relationship exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry costs or raise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555368
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Combining cluster and value chain approaches to analyze the competitiveness of fresh vegetables producers: case studies in Germany, Italy and Spain
Riedel, Bettina; Bokelmann, Wolfgang; Canavari, Maurizio - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009
as an outcome of cooperation between producers and complementary actors in local clusters. However, locally clustered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555582
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Regional networking as a competitive advantage? Empirical results from German pig production
Deimel, Mark; Plumeyer, Cord-Herwig; Theuvsen, Ludwig; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009
It is often hypothesized that geographical proximity in clusters (or industry districts) has positive effects on access …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555631
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Competitiveness, Clusters and Policy at the Regional Level: Rhetoric vs. Practice in Designing Policy for Depressed Regions
Pessoa, Argentino - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2010
This paper reviews the most important theoretical foundations of the spatial competitiveness conception, dealing with three levels of competitiveness: the country, the region and the tourism destination. Consequently, it draws attention to the main aspects that such concepts of competitiveness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642294
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A proposed hybrid storage assignment framework: a case study
Sharma, Sanjay; Shah, Bhavin - In: International Journal of Productivity and Performance … 64 (2015) 6, pp. 870-892
Purpose – A hybrid storage assignment (combination class-volume-based) framework considering quality proximity, customer and material categorization are key distinguished contents of this paper. In spite of using individual storage allocation approach, the hybrid allocation policy performs...
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Characteristics of relationships, types and strategies in a Brazilian cluster
Tristão, Hélcio Martins; Oprime, Pedro Carlos; … - In: International Journal of Productivity and Performance … 65 (2016) 4, pp. 485-502
/methodology/approach – The theoretical basis of this study are the types of clusters found in literature and the research. A survey with several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014798306
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Technology convergence and digital divides. A country-level evidence for the period 2000-2010.
Lechman, Ewa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The paper, mostly empirical in nature, investigates issues on cross-national new information and communication technologies (ICTs) adoption patterns and growth directions. In the period of 2000-2010, a great number of countries underwent substantial changes on the field of ICTs implementation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257844
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Empirical study to segment firms and capture dynamic business context using LCA
Chakrabarty, Subhajit; Nag, Biswajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The usual methods of segmenting firms are insufficient as they do not consider hidden (unobserved) groupings and do not consider the dynamic market context such as in the apparel industry. An empirical analysis was done using latent class analysis on a cross-section survey of 334 Indian apparel...
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