Agglomeration and Firm Performance

✍ Scribed by Fiorenza Belussi, Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 323
• Series: Advances in Spatial Science
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This contributed volume studies and explains the effect of agglomeration on a firm’s innovation and performance. It presents new cases as well as new topics within the agglomeration phenomenon, exploring also their role under the Great Recession. Beyond the analysis of regions or clusters, this volume focuses on firms within agglomerations and captures this phenomenon from different perspectives, contexts and diverse literatures. Specifically, it looks at the question under what circumstances exert generate benefits on firms’ performance, and how those gains are generated and distributed, usually asymmetrically, across agglomerated firms. In this context, the book addresses topics such as networks, collocation, labor mobility, firm’s strategies, innovation, competitiveness and collective actions across a diverse set of literatures, including economic geography, business economics, management, social networks, industrial districts, international business, sociology or industry dynamics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
Cluster Advantage and Firm Performance: A Shift into the Future! (Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver, Fiorenza Belussi)....Pages 1-7
Front Matter ....Pages 9-9
Effects of Being Located in a Cluster on Economic Actors (Dirk Fornahl, Nils Grashof, Cathrin Söllner)....Pages 11-24
Pathways of Innovation: The I-District Effect Revisited (Rafael Boix, Vittorio Galletto, Fabio Sforzi)....Pages 25-46
Does Innovation Trigger the Internationalisation of Clusters?: The Case of Polish Boiler-Making Cluster (Barbara Jankowska, Marta Götz)....Pages 47-62
Inward FDI and Skilled Labour Force in Veneto Industrial Districts (Mariachiara Barzotto, Ilaria Mariotti)....Pages 63-79
Front Matter ....Pages 81-81
Marshallian Industrial District Evolution: Technological Impacts and Firms’ Heterogeneity (Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver, Liney Manjarres-Henríquez, Carles Boronat-Moll)....Pages 83-93
Where Should I Locate My Hotel? An In-Depth Analysis of the Cluster Effect on Hotel Performance (Angel Peiró-Signes, Marival Segarra-Oña, Rohit Verma, Luis Miret-Pastor)....Pages 95-122
The Story of Cluster as a Cross-Boundary Concept: From Local Development to Management Studies (Annalisa Caloffi, Luciana Lazzeretti, Silvia Rita Sedita)....Pages 123-137
How Local Knowledge Networks and Firm Internal Characteristics Evolve Across Time Inside Science Parks (Isabel Díez-Vial, Ángeles Montoro-Sánchez)....Pages 139-153
The Role of Leading Firms in Explaining Evolutionary Paths of Growth: Italian and Turkish Clusters on the Move (F. Belussi, A. Caloffi)....Pages 155-188
New Roles for Supporting Organizations in Clusters: Enhancing Connectedness in Knowledge Networks (Jose Antonio Belso-Martinez, Maria Jose Lopez-Sanchez, Rosario Mateu-Garcia)....Pages 189-204
Front Matter ....Pages 205-205
Endogenous Rerouting and Longevity in Systemic Organisations of Production (Marco Bellandi, Lisa De Propris, Erica Santini)....Pages 207-221
Natural Disasters and Firm Resilience in Italian Industrial Districts (Giulio Cainelli, Andrea Fracasso, Giuseppe Vittucci Marzetti)....Pages 223-243
Coping with Economic Crisis: Cluster Associations and Firm Performance in the Basque Country (Isabel González-Bravo, Santiago M. López, Jesús M. Valdaliso)....Pages 245-262
Italian Industrial Districts and the 2008 Recession (Giorgio Brunello, Monica Langella)....Pages 263-281
Industrial Districts/Clusters and Smart Specialisation Policies (Fiorenza Belussi, Michaela Trippl)....Pages 283-308
Cluster Advantage and Firm Performance: A Concluding Remark (Fiorenza Belussi, Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver)....Pages 309-324

✦ Subjects

Economics; Industrial Organization; Regional/Spatial Science; Economic Geography; R & D/Technology Policy