Clusters and Competitive Advantage

Öz, Özlem

doi:10.1057/9780230512467

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“…These areas attracted a wide interest during the last decade and various studies have been prepared especially on Denizli (Eraydin 1998, 2002a, c, Erendil 1998, Ö zelc¸i 2002, Armatlı-Ko¨rogˇlu and Beyhan 2003, Ö z 2004, Bursa (Reyhan 1990, Eraydin 1992, Ersoy 1993, Sarac¸og˘lu 1993) and recently on Ankara (Tekeli 1994, Dede 1999. Ankara is defined as one of the peripheral industrial clusters in this study, since although Ankara is the capital of Turkey and important in terms of its administrative functions, still it is far from the main industrial core, namely the Istanbul metropolitan region.…”

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Innovation, networking and the new industrial clusters: the characteristics of networks and local innovation capabilities in the Turkish industrial clusters

Eraydın¹,

Armatli-Köroğlu²

2005

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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Innovation, networking and the new industrial clusters: the characteristics of networks and local innovation capabilities in the Turkish industrial clusters

Eraydın¹,

Armatli-Köroğlu²

2005

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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“…Turning to our case, we cannot say that such cooperative prospects are promising. Actually, previous research shows a rather low level of trust and cooperation between cluster members and a very high level of competition in return (Öz, 2004;Ankara Kalkınma Ajansı, 2012).…”

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Does Informal Knowledge Sharing Breed Innovation in Industrial Clusters?

Şengün¹

2015

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This study investigates the influence of informal knowledge sharing on the innovative performance of individual firms in an industrial cluster. By informal knowledge sharing, we mean to imply the knowledge that is shared automatically, indirectly, accidentally and unknowingly by firms in a geographically bounded area as part of the know-how common to all members in the cluster. To capture this 'informality.', we investigate the impact of trust-based knowledge sharing. In this respect, we associate trust-based knowledge sharing between furniture manufacturers and furniture retailers to their innovative performance. While doing this, we make use of both qualitative and quantitative methods. Data from 220 manufacturers and 137 retailers suggest no association between informal knowledge sharing and innovative performance. We discuss our findings with respect to the interaction between contextual specifics and innovative effectiveness of knowledge sharing. Further, we try to identify those elements in the institutional environment of the cluster that are unfavorable to the production of innovation.

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“…Gaziantep's textile cluster is among the internationally most competitive and is the largest in Turkey (Kunt & Zobu, ). It includes the textiles, clothing, apparel, leather, footwear, and complementary plastics industries (Öz, ). Although there are differences between industries, the membership mobilisation of Islamic EOs took place across all of these industries.…”

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Employers' organisations as social movements: Political power and identity work

Sezer

2018

Human Res Mgmt Journal

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The literature on employers' and business organisations (EOs) has failed to analyse them as contentious organisations that apply identity work as a power resource to mobilise resources and members. This article is based on a qualitative case study of Islamic EOs in Turkey. Developing a social movement model of EOs, I analyse the mechanisms through which identity work with local religious collaborators facilitated collective action and political power. I find that the role of identity work was threefold: providing internal solidarity, securing external legitimacy, and supporting contentious institutional change by developing new policy ideas. This model can be applied more widely as EOs have increasingly shifted from traditional roles to take on social movement characteristics.

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Clusters and Competitive Advantage

Cited by 25 publications

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Innovation, networking and the new industrial clusters: the characteristics of networks and local innovation capabilities in the Turkish industrial clusters

Innovation, networking and the new industrial clusters: the characteristics of networks and local innovation capabilities in the Turkish industrial clusters

Does Informal Knowledge Sharing Breed Innovation in Industrial Clusters?

Employers' organisations as social movements: Political power and identity work

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