'Making Friends or Making Things?': Interfirm Transactions in the Sheffield Metal-working Cluster
Autor: | Andrew Wood, Perry Wardle, H.D. Watts |
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Rok vydání: | 2003 |
Předmět: |
05 social sciences
0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 021107 urban & regional planning Sample (statistics) 02 engineering and technology Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Urban Studies Embodied cognition Cluster (physics) Economics Marketing Metal working 050703 geography Industrial organization |
Zdroj: | Urban Studies. 40:615-630 |
ISSN: | 1360-063X 0042-0980 |
DOI: | 10.1080/0042098032000053950 |
Popis: | 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 that there are no significant differences between the level of embodied transactions accompanying local (intra-cluster) material links and those associated with non-local flows. It seems that, on this measure at least and within this cluster, the Sheffield metal-working cluster lacks the dense network of embodied transactions with local suppliers suggested in the wider literature. The lower-than-expected measures of embodied transactions suggest that one of the mechanisms for the transfer of knowledge between buyers and suppliers within an industrial cluster is poorly developed in this particular case. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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