Cluster Life Cycles: The Case of the Shipbuilding Industry Cluster in South Korea

Shin, Dong-Ho; Hassink, Robert

doi:10.1080/00343404.2011.579594

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“…Scholars have developed different conceptual frameworks of cluster evolution, perhaps the most prominent are the 'life' cycle (Bergman, 2008;Brenner, 2004;Crespo, 2011;Shin & Hassink, 2011) and the 'adaptive' cycle (Martin & Sunley, 2011;Pendall, Foster, & Cowell, 2010;Simmie & Martin, 2010), which share a similar research agenda.…”

Section: Theoretical Background: Evolutionary Approaches To Cluster Ementioning

confidence: 99%

On the evolution of the Castel Goffredo hosiery cluster: a life cycle perspective

Carli

Morrison

2018

European Planning Studies

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The 'life cycle' approach has become popular in studies on industrial clusters. However, some concerns have been raised over the inherent determinism of this approach and its tendencies to focus exclusively on cluster internal dynamics while neglecting the role of external factors and socio-economic contingencies. This paper addresses these criticisms by investigating the long-term development of Castel Goffredo, a traditional textile cluster in Italy. In our analysis, we identify and characterize the main stages of the life cycle and its antecedents. We single out the main triggering factors behind each of these stages and show that a variety of factors, both external and internal to the cluster, contributed to its development. Our findings confirm that an 'adaptive' cycle approach, which focuses also on contingencies and external factors, appear to be appropriate for investigating the long-term evolution of clusters. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Theoretical Background: Evolutionary Approaches To Cluster Ementioning

confidence: 99%

On the evolution of the Castel Goffredo hosiery cluster: a life cycle perspective

Carli

Morrison

2018

European Planning Studies

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“…Hassink and colleagues have sought to demonstrate the utility of how better conceptualizations of power and agency can be developed in EEG though empirical work on clusters in, for example, the shipbuilding industry in South Korea (Shin and Hassink, 2011) and new tourist industrial development in China (Ma and Hassink, 2014). Others have integrated these arguments into more recent work aiming to further develop concepts of path dependence in EEG (cf.…”

Section: Evolutionary Political Economic Geographiesmentioning

confidence: 96%

Geographies of production II

Jones

2016

Progress in Human Geography

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Within economic geography, it has been argued that political economy approaches have diminished in both prevalence and influence to the detriment of both the sub-discipline and to human geography as a whole. This report challenges such a perspective, arguing that political economic geographies remains very much vibrant and engaging in contemporary economic geography and in the way in which economic geographers engages with the nature of the contemporary global economy. It argues that the perceived retreat of political economy approaches corresponds more to a diversification of the ways in which political economic thinking is integrated into more recent economic geography, acknowledging that this does reduce the apparent coherence around a singular articulation or approach to geographical political economy. However, it also seeks to demonstrate through reviewing recent pluralist theoretical work that political economic geography has broadened its theoretical framework and thus made significant contributions to ongoing debates around the geographies of production within the sub-discipline that had not previously been the object of political economic analysis.

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“…Shipbuilding industry cluster is an effective way for the development of shipbuilding industry as a strategic tool (Huang, 2006) [1]. Scholars focus on the studies on development elements (Cao and Liu, 2007) [2], development models (Tao and Yang, 2007; Li, 2008; Hu and Yu, 2013) [3][4][5], the formation mechanism of shipbuilding industrial cluster (Tao, 2005;Zhao, 2007;Wang, 2010) [6][7][8], and the life cycle of South Korea's shipbuilding industry cluster (Shin et al, 2011) [9], shipbuilding industry cluster development theoretical model (Zong, 2013) [10], development opportunities and challenges of shipbuilding industry cluster (Zhang and Zeng, 2014) [11], etc. However, the literatures rarely involve the study of the complex mechanism of the shipbuilding industry cluster.…”

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Coupling Mechanism and Coupling Degree Measurement Model of Shipbuilding Industry Cluster

Wang

2016

Polish Maritime Research

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This article was aimed to analyse the working condition of the coupling mechanism in Chinese shipbuilding industry cluster. Literature review was conducted to unveil the coupling mechanism of shipbuilding industry cluster, providing analysis of the present development of shipbuilding industry. A theoretical model was proposed by using the efficacy function and the capacity of the coupling coefficient while measuring the coupling of the shipbuilding industry cluster.Four coupling characteristics were found including relevant, systemic, diversity, and collaborative in the shipbuilding industry cluster. The shipbuilding industry cluster has two levels of coupling mechanism including the core layer coupling mechanism and the support layer coupling mechanism respectively. The improvement through coupling the core layer, support layer, and the coupling between two levels, is an effective way to achieve long-term stable development in Chinese shipbuilding industry cluster.

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Cluster Life Cycles: The Case of the Shipbuilding Industry Cluster in South Korea

Cited by 56 publications

References 28 publications

On the evolution of the Castel Goffredo hosiery cluster: a life cycle perspective

On the evolution of the Castel Goffredo hosiery cluster: a life cycle perspective

Geographies of production II

Coupling Mechanism and Coupling Degree Measurement Model of Shipbuilding Industry Cluster

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