Knowledge, Clusters, and Competitive Advantage

Tallman, Stephen; Jenkins, Mark; Henry, Nick; Pinch, Steven

doi:10.5465/amr.2004.12736089

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“…These include "Silicon Dominion" in northern Virginia, "Silicon Island" in Taiwan, "Silicon Alps" in Austria, and "Silicon Saxony" in eastern Germany (Bresnahan, Gambardella, & Saxenian, 2001;Haavind, 1999;Karnath, 1998;Matthews, 1997;Porter, 1998). The success of such regions has considerable relevance for practicing managers and public policy officials, and has attracted much attention from scholars in management, (e.g., Porter, 1990Porter, , 1998Tallman, Jenkins, Henry, & Pinch, 2004), public policy (e.g., Saxenian, 1994), and economics (e.g., Cooke, 2001). As Zaheer and Manrakhan (2001) observe, such regional success is all the more important for managers and policymakers alike to understand in an era of globalization and increased foreign direct investment, inexpensive communication, and mobile labor markets (Reid, DeMartino, & Zyglidopoulos, 2005).…”

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Localized advantage in a global economy: The case of Bangalore

Nair¹,

Ahlström

Filer

2007

Thunderbird Intl Bus Rev

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Localized advantage in a global economy: The case of Bangalore

Nair¹,

Ahlström

Filer

2007

Thunderbird Intl Bus Rev

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“…By informal knowledge sharing we meant to imply the more or less automatic, haphazard, indirect, unintended or accidental knowledge accrued by cluster firms via mere membership in the cluster or 'being there' (Bathelt, Malberg, and Maskell, 2004;Tallman, Jenkins, Henry, and Pinch 2004). Our study findings did not show any significant association between informal knowledge sharing and innovative performance.…”

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“…The rationale behind this is that, in buyer-supplier relationships, the knowledge shared will be aimed more at achieving a certain desired end such as materials procurement, design, production, or distribution and hence will be more purposive and direct with a goal of exchanging value-for-value. However, this would not coincide with our study aims since we desire to represent 'informality' in the sense of not seeking an explicit compensation from the other party (Tallman et al, 2004). As such, we concentrate only on manufacturer-manufacturer and retailerretailer horizontal exchanges.…”

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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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“…Nesse sentido, uma das primeiras ações do MF foi a criação da Espri e do Polo Empresarial Spartaco, que abriga seis empresas de EdC e cujo modelo, construí-do ao longo do tempo, serve de referência na criação de outros polos no Brasil e no mundo. Essa iniciativa, embora ainda relativamente recente, apresenta claras indicações de se beneficiar das vantagens de aglomeração (do inglês, cluster ou agglomeration advantages), tais como facilidades no intercâmbio de informações, na obtenção de apoio financeiro e recursos de modo geral (incluindo, principalmente, recursos humanos), relações preferenciais de compra, melhor conhecimento das preferências dos consumidores, entre outras (TALLMAN et al, 2004 …”

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"Segurando na mão de Deus": organizações religiosas e apoio ao empreendedorismo

Serafim

Martes

Rodriguez³

2012

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Este artigo investiga mecanismos de apoio ao empreendedorismo proporcionados por organizações religiosas. Foram pesquisadas duas organizações, uma católica e outra evangélica, por meio de estudo de caso qualitativo. A análise comparativa baseou-se em três dimensões específicas do apoio ao empreendedorismo que emergiram na própria pesquisa de campo e que denominamos espaços de informação, formação e motivação. Consideramos tais dimensões como importantes achados desta pesquisa e as utilizamos como categorias para investigar o impacto dos mecanismos oferecidos pelas organizações religiosas nas etapas do processo de empreendedorismo. Os resultados do trabalho indicam uma confluência entre os dois casos: o pertencimento às igrejas resulta na formação de capital social orientado para as várias dimensões econômicas e no reforço religioso à motivação econômica. As diferenças, contudo, encontram-se na representação religiosa do significado do sucesso econômico e na articulação e fechamento de suas respectivas redes sociais. Abstract The article investigates mechanisms offered by religious organizations to support entrepreneurial initiatives. We examine two organizations, one catholic and one protestant, using a qualitative case study design. The comparative assessment was based on three dimensions of support that appeared as a result of the data analysis, that we called spaces of information, formation, and motivation. The dimensions are considered as possible important research results and were used to investigate the impact on the traditional stages of the entrepreneurial process of the mechanisms made available by the two religious organizations. The analysis indicates certain similarities between the two cases: church membership assists in the creation of social capital that impacts various economic dimensions, as well as provides religious support to the economic motivations. However, the differences between the two churches become evident in the religious interpretation of economic success and in the articulation and closure of their social networks.

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Knowledge, Clusters, and Competitive Advantage

Cited by 695 publications

References 40 publications

Localized advantage in a global economy: The case of Bangalore

Localized advantage in a global economy: The case of Bangalore

Does Informal Knowledge Sharing Breed Innovation in Industrial Clusters?

"Segurando na mão de Deus": organizações religiosas e apoio ao empreendedorismo

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