Clusters. A new organizational context in search fo meaning

ROCHA, H.

Congreso; Academy of Management; 2006

Este paper es con referato This paper develops a model that integrates the different phenomena implicit in previous theoretical and empirical work on clusters. It aims at reducing the gap between the increasing academic and policy interest in clusters and the conceptual and theoretical grounds upon which cluster research and policies are grounded. Its basic premise is that one of the obstacles for understanding the cluster phenomenon is the lack of integration of different assumptions, units and levels of analysis that are implicit in different conceptualizations that underlie current theoretical perspectives, empirical work, and public policies on clusters. The model makes explicit the different phenomena implicit in previous work and identifies the essential and contingent dimensions of clusters. This paper contributes a scholarship of integration approach for a better understanding of clusters, a new organizational context that is becoming an important line of research in management studies.