The role of joint actions in the performance of IT clusters in Mexico

Gutiérrez-Martínez, Isis; Duhamel, François; Luna‐Reyes, Luis F.; Picazo-Vela, Sergio; Huerta-Carvajal, María Isabel

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“…Extant research has focused on cluster initiatives that use the country (Wilson et al, 2014) or the subnational region (Gutiérrez-Martínez et al, 2015) as geographic units of analysis. This paper focuses on the supra-national region and conducts a historical account of the Central American Competitiveness Initiative.…”

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The Central American Competitiveness Initiative

Ketelhöhn¹,

Artavia²,

Arce

et al. 2015

Competitiveness Review

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2015),"Competitiveness: from a misleading concept to a strategy supporting Beyond GDP goals", Competitiveness Review, Vol. 25 Iss 5 pp. 497-523 http://dx.If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -This paper is a historical account of the process by which Michael Porter and INCAE Business School put together a regional competitiveness strategy for Central America that was officially adopted by the governments of five participating countries, and implemented through a series of Presidential Summits that occurred between 1995 and 1999. The paper provides a unique case study on the adoption of the concepts put forth by Porter in his book "The Competitive Advantage of Nations" (1990) at the highest level of government. The study arrives at a series of practical implications for policy makers that are particularly relevant for the implementation of supra-national regional strategies. Design/methodology/approach -The authors conduct an extensive literature review of 190 policy papers produced by INCAE Business School, that are used to recreate the historical evolution of the regional competitiveness strategy. The effect of Porter's intervention is also assessed by comparing the main economic indicators of each participating country with those of 2005-2010. One of the authors was the main protagonist in the successful implementation of the strategy, and the paper relies partially on his accounts of events. Findings -This study describes how economic policy in Central America was profoundly influenced by Michael Porter's thinking in the second half of the 1990s. These policy changes promoted international competition of Central American clusters and firms, and opened the region for international investment and tourism. The region experienced important increases in its economic integration, its international trade, foreign direct investment and tourist arrivals. Gross domestic product growth was accelerated in Honduras and Nicaragua. Research limitations/implications -Like all case studies, this study has limits related to the generalizability of its conclusions. Additionally, it is not possible to determine the precise nature of the relation between the implementation of the regional economic strategy, and the impact o...

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The Central American Competitiveness Initiative

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Artavia²,

Arce

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“…The perception of high risk may even constitute an obstacle to meaningful collaboration between competitors (Arranz and Arroyabe, 2008). In a similar vein, some authors have suggested that coopetition may not represent an appropriate strategy to the production of new innovations (Nieto and Santamaria, 2007; Ritala and Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, 2009; Gutierrez-Martínez et al , 2015). Different innovation related objectives lead to different levels of value/tensions over the appropriation among co-competitors.…”

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“…R&D cooperation relationships have been identified as an important factor in explaining differences in innovation levels, not only between firms but also between regions (Fritsch, 2004). The main focus of the last two decades of coopetition research has primarily investigated these aspects of change, and cooperation among competitors has been studied within many research areas, with or without labeling the relationship as “coopetition” (Bengtsson and Kock, 2014), in many sectors, including ICT (Gueguen, 2009; Gutierrez-Martínez et al , 2015), healthcare (Barretta, 2008; Peng and Bourne, 2009), air transport (Garrette Castañer and Dussauge, 2009), food (Kotzab and Teller, 2003) automotive industry (Gwynne, 2009; Segrestin, 2005); services (Mention, 2011), semiconductor industry (Park et al , 2014), tourism (Della Corte and Aria, 2016), medical and machinery sectors (Bouncken et al , 2017), even while no study has yet simultaneously involved different industries.…”

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The effects of coopetition on the innovation activities and firm performance

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Ferreira

Veiga³

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Purpose The purpose of this paper involves evaluating the impact of coopetition on the innovation activities and innovation performance of companies. Design/methodology/approach The study deployed data from the Community Innovation Survey – CIS 2012 and subject to the application of different multivariate statistical analysis processes. Findings The authors furthermore conclude that coopetition and the transfer of knowledge to and from competitors generates a statistically significant positive impact on company innovation-related activities and performance. Originality/value This work enriches the theory of innovation from the perspectives of game-theoretic strategic and resource theory approach. Moreover, the findings provide several recommendations for managers to effectively conduct firm’s coopetition strategy on innovation performance.

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“…They find that BGFs with both technological leadership and entrepreneurship orientation can follow an integrated strategy whereas firms with technological leadership would adopt the differentiation strategy and firms with entrepreneurial orientation adopt a cost leadership strategy. In addition, studies have also emphasized the importance of location (clusters such as Bangalore) on innovativeness, competitiveness and performance of BGFs (Gutiérrez-Martínez et al , 2015; Manzini and Di Serio, 2017; Momaya, 2016). While studies examining internationalization paths of BGFs do examine the individual dimensions such as international scope, nature of commitment, strategic orientation, none of these studies examine these dimensions in an integrated manner.…”

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Post internationalization strategies of born global service firms

Dhandapani

Upadhyayula

Basant

2019

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Purpose Extant literature suggests that post-entry internationalization strategies and performance implications of born globals are an under-researched area. This paper aims to examine the internationalization strategies of born global service firms (BGSFs) and performance implications thereof through strategic group analysis of hand-collected data from Indian information technology (IT) firms. Design/methodology/approach Strategic group analysis has been used to examine if there are any differences in the strategic decisions across firms and if there are any implications of these strategies on the performance of firms. The strategic group approach helps understand not only the antecedents but also the strategic trade-offs that different groups of BGSFs face after internationalization. The study uses Indian IT industry as the context for analysis of BGSFs, as studies have found that the Indian IT industry to have significant presence of born globals. Findings Four distinct strategic paths were found to be followed by BGSFs. In addition, the nature of services and ways of mobilization or deployment of resources explain the different internationalization paths and consequently performance. The performance differences primarily stem from the choice of degree of commitment and scope of internationalization. Practical implications This study provides distinct insights to practice by charting internationalization paths for an emerging born global. Originality/value This paper contributes to the theory on born globals by using strategic lens to explain the internationalization paths and their performance implications.

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The role of joint actions in the performance of IT clusters in Mexico

Cited by 11 publications

References 44 publications

The Central American Competitiveness Initiative

The Central American Competitiveness Initiative

The effects of coopetition on the innovation activities and firm performance

Post internationalization strategies of born global service firms

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