Competitiveness Review: Volume 25 Issue 3

Complementing clusters: a competitiveness rationale for infrastructure investments

Amir Sasson, Torger Reve

The purpose of this paper is to present a novel application of cluster theory and cluster methodology to evaluate large infrastructure investments. The complementing clusters…

Knowledge exchanges in innovation networks: evidences from an Italian aerospace cluster

Fernando G. Alberti, Emanuele Pizzurno

This paper aims at investigating the multifaceted nature of innovation networks by focusing on two research questions: Do cluster actors exchange only one type of…

Insights into the creation of a successful MNE innovation cluster

Michele O'Dwyer, Lisa O'Malley, Stephen Murphy, Regina C. McNally

This paper aims to recount the genesis of a successful innovation cluster among Irish-based divisions of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and Irish universities in the…

A spring-clean of Michael Porter’s Attic: The Canadian telecommunications sector as an exemplar of refurbished generic strategy

Anthony M. Gould, Guillaume Desjardins

This paper views the phenomenon of offering/user interface complexity as having competitive strategy-related consequences. Porter’s conception of generic management strategy was…

The role of clusters in the global innovation strategy of MNEs: Theoretical foundations and evidence from the Basel pharmaceutical cluster

Philippe Gugler, Michael Keller, Xavier Tinguely

This paper aims to focus on the role of clusters as home and host country-specific advantages for multinational enterprises (“MNEs”) in the organization of their internal and…

Irish Economic Development: Serial Under-achievement or High-Performing EU State?

Mike Danson