This study looks at the role of internal linkages in highly competitive clusters. We argue that,
in addition to serving as a mechanism for sourcing knowledge, strong internal linkages help …

In today's knowledge economy, clusters are a key driver of a country's competitiveness. Yet
a cluster's technological base is now more than ever influenced by constituent firms' actions …

Researchers in international strategy are increasingly investigating the role of regional
clusters as features of international industry, most concerned with the competitive role of …

Drawing on insights from macro-and microlevel research, I develop and test a theory of how
the makeup of firms' local environments influences their ability to generate innovations. I …

The paper examines the ways firms benefit from knowledge spillovers in industrial clusters,
contrasting the effects to firms not located in clusters or located in clusters not focused on the …

This paper extends current knowledge of industry clusters by disentangling the effects of
networks from cluster (ie, distinctly geographic) mechanisms on firm performance as well as …

This article investigates the location strategies of Canadian and Chinese multisite firms in
international and domestic investment decisions at the metropolitan level. By integrating …

How is firm innovation affected by location in an innovation cluster? How does the interplay
of firm and cluster characteristics matter? We examine these questions by conducting an …

Addressing the inconsistent findings in the literature, we first distinguish the type of
innovation and study the relationship of industrial clusters with exploitative and exploratory …

A key trend of recent literature is the increased use of interorganizational relationships to
achieve organizational objectives. While the phenomenon of collaborative innovation has …