Keeping up with the neighbors: The role of cluster identity in internationalization

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Lunnan, Randi; Bjarnar, Ove; Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld

doi:10.1016/j.jwb.2020.101125

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“…Local competences in building ships for rough sea operations and the presence of a local supply chain, in combination with a strong collaborative and innovative culture (Amdam et al, 2020b), acted as an important precursor for the abilities of local actors to capitalise on this wave of rapid increase in demand for new offshore vessels and compete in international markets. In other words, previous actions played an important role in the period of 2005-2014, forming favourable regional preconditions for this opportunity emerging from the oil and gas sector.…”

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“…Fourthly, there was an alliance of public and private actors to facilitate restructuring (see further below). Fifthly, the local culture was described not only as entrepreneurial and collaborative, but also as resilient in terms of fighting downturns and hardship rooted in a culture of fisheries in rough seas (Amdam et al, 2020b).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Temporality of agency in regional development

Grillitsch¹,

Asheim

Nielsen³

2021

European Urban and Regional Studies

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The temporality of agency plays a fundamental role in regional development but has received little attention in economic geography and regional studies. This paper zooms in on two aspects of temporality: the temporality of intentions and the temporality of consequences. The former refers to actors’ perception and valuation of opportunities in the near and distant future, whereas the latter refers to the short- and long-term consequences of actions. This paper studies the temporality of agency in the context of regional development. It investigates how short- and long-term intentions motivate different types of agency, how different types of agency affect short- and long-term regional development outcomes and which conditions enable or constrain different types of agency. We illustrate our arguments with an in-depth case study covering the regional development of a labour market in Norway over the last 20 years.

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Temporality of agency in regional development

Grillitsch¹,

Asheim

Nielsen³

2021

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…This allows the understanding and evaluation of the best adaptation solution to start operating abroad. Therefore, following Amdam et al (2020), the focus on adapting the firm's products and services to the foreign market allows the development of a conscious readiness for internationalization through shared knowledge in the network.…”

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A network model approach to enhance knowledge sharing for internationalization readiness of SMEs

Magni

Fait

Lefebvre

2021

IMR

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PurposeBuilding upon the insights of the resource-based view and internationalization theories, the purpose of this paper is to examine the role networks play in SMEs' readiness for internationalization. By investigating three different types of knowledge sharing, namely economic-setting, market-specific and customer-specific, the study analyzes their effect on SMEs' readiness for internationalization.Design/methodology/approachThe four research hypotheses derived by from the analysis of the literature have been investigated by applying the multiple regression technique. By means of an online survey, 300 valid questionnaires were collected and information from a sample of Italian SMEs belonging to 11 agro-food consortia have been analyzed.FindingsThe results suggest that SMEs' readiness for internationalization could be supported by sharing customer-specific, market-specific and economic-setting knowledge with other firms operating within the same agro-food consortium. Additionally, data analysis highlights a negative relation between the risk perception in the process and readiness for internationalization, suggesting the importance of knowledge sharing in reducing the criticality issues of being a newcomer entering international markets.Originality/valueFrom a theoretical perspective, this study aims to fill the gap in knowledge management and international relationship marketing literature. Since proposes a combination of different kinds of knowledge that contribute to reducing the criticalities SMEs must face by identifying useful information to be conveyed within the network. From a managerial perspective, the study provides useful insights for the agro-food sector, highlighting how experiential and network knowledge constitutes a pre-condition for managing internationalization complexity and discovering opportunities on foreign markets.

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“…Innovative entrepreneurship became a continuous strategy for many local firms. Being innovative and entrepreneurial has become part of the regional identity (see also Amdam, Lunnan, et al., 2020). This was also corroborated by interview partners in the other two case study regions (Arendal and Mo i Rana) who pointed out Ulsteinvik as an example of a region with a high level of entrepreneurship.…”

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Advancing the treatment of human agency in the analysis of regional economic development: Illustrated with three Norwegian cases

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Human agency has become a core topic in economic geography complementing traditional, structural approaches to explain regional development. This paper contributes firstly with a discussion of the theoretical and conceptual relationships between the agency of individuals, organizations, and systems. Secondly, it proposes a novel analytical framework for studying how human agency, combined with external changes affects regional economic development, and how regional structural preconditions and external changes explain the activation of change agency. Thirdly, the relevance of the framework is examined through comparative studies of about 20 years of industrial development in three Norwegian regions. This illuminates the importance of human agency in regional transformation processes, how regional preconditions influence but not determine the activation of change agency, as well as why and how regional policy plays a role in the emergence of change agency. Yet, future research needs to investigate the context conditions, which promote or hinder the activation of change agency, to trace change in economic activities

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Keeping up with the neighbors: The role of cluster identity in internationalization

Cited by 20 publications

References 82 publications

Temporality of agency in regional development

Temporality of agency in regional development

A network model approach to enhance knowledge sharing for internationalization readiness of SMEs

Advancing the treatment of human agency in the analysis of regional economic development: Illustrated with three Norwegian cases

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