Business Clusters

Partnering for Strategic Advantage
Herausgeber: Jayachandran, C.; Subramanian, Ram; Thorpe, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A book that provides a strategic view of how business or regional economic clusters have led to success in several areas and their potential to create more opportunities, from a conceptual, empirical and public policy perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781138665002
• ISBN-10: 1138665002
• Artikelnr.: 44827110

Autorenporträt

C. Jayachandran, Center for International Business (CIB) and International Trade Counseling Center (ITCC), Montclair State University Michael Thorpe, University of Wollongong, Dubai (UOWD) Ram Subramanian, School of Business, Montclair State University Vishnuprasad Nagadevara, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

Inhaltsangabe

I. Introduction
II. Section 1
Regional Economic Clusters
an Empirical Perspective
1. Cluster or Satellite Platform: A Comparative Study/John Hobbs, Richard Maloney, and Michael Walsh
2. Technology Specialists as Knowledge Gatekeepers/Rebecca Mitchell, John Burgess, Jennifer Waterhouse, and Karen McNeil
3. Creating Competitive Advantage through Collaboration: An Action Led Research Approach/Martin Rahe, Mariano Najles, and Jordi Garcia
4. Clusters as a Tool for Increasing the Performance of Companies: Good Practices Used by Selected Clusters/Eva Jircikova
5. Models and Approaches to Measuring and Managing Performance of Clusters and Cluster Initiatives/Adriana Knapkova, Drahomira Pavelkova, and Libor Friedel
6. Are Firms in Knowledge and Technology
Intensive Sectors Located within Regional Clusters more Effi cient? Some Empirical Evidence from Eastern Europe/Kornelia Kozovska
7. Differences and Similarities in Conditions for the Establishment and Development of Clusters in Poland and the Czech Republic/Magdalena Bialic and Drahomira Pavelkova
8. CSR, Cluster Groups, and Stakeholder Engagement in the Indian Context: Towards Sustainable Government Structures/Catherine Nickerson and Subrat Sahu
9. Application of Real Options Analysis for Biotech
Cluster Formation: Optimal Investment Timing of Biotech Start
ups Under Uncertainty/Takao Fujiwara
10. Industrial Clusters, Human Capital, and Regional Growth/Nibedita Saha and Drahomira Pavelkova
III. Section 2
Clusters and Public Policy
11. Regional Development and the "Dubai Model": Some Observations and Experiences/Julia Connell and Michael Thorpe
12. Public Policies to Enhance Cluster Development/Kerry Brown, John Burgess, Marion Festing, Robyn Keast, Susanne Royer, Charlotte Steffen and Jennifer Waterhouse
13. The "Visible" Hand: Government Policy's Effect on Regional Competitive Clusters/Ram Subramanian and C. Jayachandran
IV. Section 3
Case Studies on Clusters
14. Development of and Success Factors in a Mexican Software Cluster/Claudia Diaz
Perez
15. TIC Cluster in Asturias (Spain): A Success Case/Karla Paola Jimenéz and Beatriz Junquera
16. Spatial Clusters in Organic Farming
A Case Study of Pulses Cultivation in Karnataka/Gopal Naik and Vishnuprasad Nagadevara
17. The Impact of Educational and Banking Industry Clusters on Urban Land Expansion: An Exploratory Study of Mangalore City of Karnataka, India/U. Arabi and Mustaf
Author Biographies.