Competitiveness Review: Volume 29 Issue 3

Guest editorial

Francisco Puig

Competitive advantage and industrial district: A review of the empirical evidence about the district effect

Enrique Claver-Cortés, Bartolomé Marco-Lajara, Pedro Seva-Larrosa, Lorena Ruiz-Fernández

This paper aims to know the dimension and scope that research on the district effect has had in the literature about industrial districts, as well as to shed some light on the…

Spatial agglomeration and specialization in emerging markets: Economic efficiency of clusters in Thai industries

Mathieu Resbeut, Philippe Gugler, Danuvasin Charoen

The paper aims to investigate the role of specialization and agglomeration forces on industry performance in an emerging market, namely, Thailand. In particular, the impact of…

Emergence of a digital cluster in east London: birth of a new hybrid firm

Graeme Lorenzo Evans

This paper aims to investigate the composition and geography of an emerging “creative digital” cluster in London, in the context of cluster theory and emerging creative cluster…

The impact of actors, networks and institutions in the cluster’s evolution: The case of the Brazilian ceramic tile industry

Gabriela Scur, Renato Garcia

This paper aims to analyze the impact of the capabilities and strategies of the actors (micro-dynamics), learning process and networks (meso-dynamics) and institutions…

The significance of proximityin cluster initiatives

Anna Maria Lis

The purpose of this paper is to analyse relations between geographical and competence proximity and development of cooperation in cluster initiatives.