European Regional Science Association

ERSA 2003 Congress

Abstracts

The abstract for paper number 36:

Juan Ignacio Dalmau-Porta, Escuela Técnica Superiro de Ingenieros Industriales. Departamento de Organización de Empresas. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. , Valencia, Spain, José Luis Hervás- Oliver, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales. Departamento de Organización de Empresas. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. ETSII-DOE Camino de Vera s/n , Valencia, Spain, Maria del Val Segarra-Oña, Escuela Técnica Superiro de Ingenieros Industriales. Departamento de Organización de Empresas. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. , Valencia, Spain
A Conceptual Framework for the Industrial District Analysis: from Knowledge to Resources

Traditional literature on Industrial Districts has remarked the social capital as a core key in the development process of a sustainable territorial competitive advantage. In that concept authors are allocated part of the externalities without being underpined by an integrating conceptual framework.

Recent resource-base view and knowledge management theory, as well as intellectual capital approach, can all be use as a conceptual framework to allocate all the industrial district’s special features in a more comprehensive and connected arena.

We establish a conceptual framework by integrating different approaches and adapt all of them to specific industrial district case. Moreover, we adapt the SECI knowledge management model to the cluster case as a useful way to understand the tacit knowledge dissemination that occurs in the industrial district.

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