How to manage strategic alliances in OEM-based industrial clusters: Network embeddedness and formal governance mechanisms

Lin, Hui; Huang, Heng‐Chiang; Lin, Chih-Pin; Hsu, Wu-Hsiao

doi:10.1016/j.indmarman.2011.04.003

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“…The former concerns the type of actors in terms of networks and companies. The latter involves antecedents and effects of district agglomeration (Dei Ottati, 1994;Provan & Kenis, 2008;Lin, Huang, Lin, & Hsu, 2012). However, a reflection on the development of the research field is needed to conjecture about the future of the studies.…”

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Governance of Industrial Districts: Bibliometric and Cluster Analyses

Saggese

2016

IJBM

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During the last decades, industrial districts have been at the forefront of academic and policy-making debate as important players of the economic development of small and medium sized companies in many countries. Nevertheless, a number of factors have strongly damaged these networks and questioned their competitiveness. Literature suggests that district governance is a proper solution to these issues and interprets this tool as an effective guide for development and changes of industrial districts. However, yet to date, the research on the governance of industrial districts is still sparse and very fragmentary. Furthermore, it presents a strong multidisciplinary breadth that prevents the identification of a comprehensive picture of the academic field. On the basis of these premises, this review study combines bibliometric and cluster analyses of scholarly articles published until March 2016 in order to identify research trends and describe the structure and the evolution of this research field over the last 27 years. The paper has implications for theory and practice. First, it systematizes and consolidates the literature on industrial district governance. Moreover, it highlights the evolutionary pattern of the research and identifies unexplored/underexplored issues that scholars should address. Finally, it proposes additional avenues to guide future efforts of policy makers.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Governance of Industrial Districts: Bibliometric and Cluster Analyses

Saggese

2016

IJBM

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“…As Powell (1990) affirms, network embeddedness encourages two sides of a transaction to engage in self-monitoring and refrains from cheating to enhance mutual benefits. The social control generated by network embeddedness supports formal governance mechanisms and plays a complementary role in governance (H. M. Lin, Huang, Lin, & Hsu, 2012).…”

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Do Industrial Clusters Still Matter to Trust-Building in the Internet Era? A Network Embeddedness Perspective

Wei

Rayman‐Bacchus

et al. 2019

SAGE Open

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Despite the considerable amount of research regarding trust as one of the most important characters and competitive advantages for an industrial cluster, few empirical studies have examined whether geographic proximity still leads to higher levels of trust in the current Internet era. This article explores this issue of trust from a network embeddedness perspective. Based on the data from Zhongshan gas appliance cluster, we employ structural equation modeling to examine the extent to which relational embeddedness, structural embeddedness, and positional embeddedness have any impact on trust-building in the cluster. Our findings reveal that high clique trust and low aggregate trust coexist in the cluster, showing that the effect of geographical proximity on trust has been weakened and is no longer a sufficient condition for trust-building. This study also gives some suggestions on how to improve the trust within a cluster through network governance.Lez Rayman-Bacchus is a research follow in the Business School, University of Winchester, United Kingdom. He also founded the Centre for Corporate Responsibility at London Metropolitan University, and the international symposium on Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development. His research interests include the practice of strategy and international management, currently focused on Chinese SME attitudes and behavior in industrial network clusters, and that of Middle Eastern businesses. He has a background in both industry and academia. He spent more than 15 years with high technology multinational companies working in business development and marketing, before moving into research and teaching on strategy, corporate responsibility and sustainability, corporate ethics, and corporate governance. He has published more than about 30 papers as well as one academic book.GuangMing Xiang is pursuing master's degree in finance at the School of Management and Economics in UESTC.

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“…The literature has witnessed a heated debate about whether trust and control exclude each other or complement each other. Empirical research offers ambiguous findings regarding the relationship between contracts and trust: while some studies find contracts to facilitate trust building (Luo, 2002;Poppo & Zenger, 2002, Lin et al, 2012, others argue that trust can serve as a precondition for contracts (Larson 1992;Ring & Van de Ven, 1994), or that contracts can have a negative influence on trust between partners (Dyer & Singh, 1998;Malhotra & Murnigham, 2002). The reason for these ambiguous findings may be that the constructs of trust and contracts are too complex and abstract to form a good basis for explaining how trust and contracts interact and what network management exactly entails (Klein Woolthuis et al, 2005).…”

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An activities-based approach to network management: An explorative study

Manser

Hillebrand

Woolthuis

et al. 2016

Industrial Marketing Management

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Research highlights There are three distinct modes of network management: basically coordinated, controloriented and reward-oriented  Basically coordinated networks can only be managed in a limited way  Reward-and control-oriented networks can be managed, but through very different AbstractOver the last few decades, the industrial marketing literature and the business network literature have promoted a holistic approach to marketing and provided a framework for understanding interorganizational networks. However, our understanding of how interorganizational networks govern themselves when developing innovations is still limited. Most network management literature does not focus on the activities employed by network actors and/or does not recognize that there may be different modes of network management. This study explores how, why and in which combination network management activities are employed in a network and in doing so proposes a new conceptualization of network management. Using primary and secondary data pertaining to eleven innovation projects, this study reveals how network management consists of combinations of (rather than individual) management activities undertaken to manage a network.This study identifies three distinct modes of network management: basically coordinated, control-oriented and reward-oriented. Moreover, this study proposes that network actors try to match the management mode to their prevailing mental model as well as the type of network (e.g. in terms of project innovativeness).

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How to manage strategic alliances in OEM-based industrial clusters: Network embeddedness and formal governance mechanisms

Cited by 56 publications

References 93 publications

Governance of Industrial Districts: Bibliometric and Cluster Analyses

Governance of Industrial Districts: Bibliometric and Cluster Analyses

Do Industrial Clusters Still Matter to Trust-Building in the Internet Era? A Network Embeddedness Perspective

An activities-based approach to network management: An explorative study

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