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Industrial clusters can be characterised by high levels of personal interaction between the owners/managers of firms. It has been argued that within industrial clusters community and firm tend to merge. One result of the notion of a cluster as a comm
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315245768-6
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315245768-6
Publikováno v:
International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship. 24:496-514
This article explores the ways in which the characteristics of the owner-managers of small firms influence whether or not those firms have a business plan. The focus is primarily on antecedent influences on owner-managers such as education and prior
Publikováno v:
Entrepreneurship & Regional Development. 18:185-205
The primary objective of this paper is to explore the ways in which the characteristics of owner-managers influence the extent to which their firms are embedded within local clusters of economic activity. Data are drawn from an interview survey of a
Publikováno v:
Growth and Change. 35:419-433
Clusters now form a central element in many regional economic development policies. Location within a cluster of related industries is thought to increase a firm's competitive advantage resulting in higher output and productivity growth rates than in
Publikováno v:
Urban Studies. 40:615-630
The paper comprises an examination of the material inputs of a sample of 70 small firms in the Sheffield metal-working cluster and an assessment of the extent to which purchases are accompanied by face-to-face (embodied) transactions. It is shown tha