Performance management of regional clusters and SME cooperation networks

Prioritization and management of inter-enterprise collaborative performance

“…An analogous contribution was made by Gerolamo et al (2008), who developed a performance management model for industrial clusters and cooperation networks. Their model is divided into five steps:…”

“…Indeed, performance management in industrial clusters has drawn considerable attention from several authors and has been viewed as a basis for the management of a cluster (Sölvell et al 2003;DTI, 2005;Gerolamo et al, 2008;Carpinetti et al, 2008). Furthermore, the use of numerical means to demonstrate the benefits of collaboration in organizational networks would motivate companies to collaborate more and establish new partnerships (Camarinha-Matos and Affsarmanesh, 2007).…”

“…Such benefits may be extended if firms act together through joint actions that stimulate them to collaborate for the common good (Bititci et al, 2004). However, some authors argue that the execution of joint actions requires some sort of local coordination, whose role is to intermediate the interests of companies and coordinate the execution of activities related to the joint action (Schmitz and Nadvi, 1999;Sölvell et al, 2003;Gerolamo et al, 2008).…”

“…In Brazil it is common to observe local associations that promote initiatives that seek to satisfy some needs common to a subset of the local firms. Some authors have reported on cases of such institutions, such as Schmitz (1998), Sölvell et al (2003 and Gerolamo et al (2008). The term institution for collaboration (IFC) is used in this paper to refer to such supporting associations.…”

Analysis of the interplay between knowledge and performance management in industrial clusters

“…Examples of such frameworks and models have been put forward by Sölvell et al (2003) and by the British Department of Trade and Industry -DTI (2005). Other authors have focused on the process of planning, executing and evaluating collaborative initiatives using performance management concepts (Meyer-Stamer & Harmes-Liedtke, 2005;Gerolamo et al, 2008). In this paper, performance management in industrial clusters is thus defined as the process by which the cluster defines its strategy and executes joint initiatives derived from strategy and design performance measurement systems (PMS) to evaluate the impact of joint actions according to its strategy.…”