Performing in Dutch book publishing 1880-2008: the importance of entrepreneurial experience and the Amsterdam cluster

Heebels, Barbara; Boschma, Ron

doi:10.1093/jeg/lbq048

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“…EEG studies of, for example, the book publishing industry (Heebels & Boschma, 2011) and non-EEG studies of the cognitive-cultural economy (Scott, 2007) are similar enough to tourism studies to somewhat reduce the theoretical leap of faith.…”

Section: Path Dependence and New Path Creationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism Evolution: On the Synergies of Tourism Studies and Evolutionary Economic Geography

Brouder

Eriksson

2013

Annals of Tourism Research

141

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Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG) is receiving increasing interest from tourism scholars. EEG has proven to be a useful explanatory paradigm in other sectors, e.g., high-technology and creative sectors. There remains, however, a lack of theoretical discussion on evolutionary principles of economic change within relatively low-technology service sectors, of which tourism is a prime example. This paper introduces EEG to a wider tourism audience by presenting the core principles of EEG and how they relate to tourism studies. A selection of new research paths combining EEG and tourism studies is highlighted together with a number of latent research synergies which can progress both EEG and tourism studies. The paper calls for further empirical and conceptual engagement with EEG by tourism scholars.

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Section: Path Dependence and New Path Creationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism Evolution: On the Synergies of Tourism Studies and Evolutionary Economic Geography

Brouder

Eriksson

2013

Annals of Tourism Research

141

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“…There are also studies that find neither a positive nor a negative effect of clustering. In series of studies looking at firm survival in particular industries, including U.S. car industry (KLEPPER, 2007), the global fashion design industry (WENTING, 2008), the U.S. tire industry (BUENSTORF and KLEPPER, 2009), the U.S. semiconductor industry (KLEPPER, 2010), the German machine tool industry (BUENSTORF and GUENTHER, 2011) and the Dutch publishing industry (HEEBELS and BOSCHMA, 2011), firms in clusters did not survive longer than firms outside clusters. Importantly, the absence of cluster effects in all these studies becomes apparent only when controlling for pre-entry experience attributed to spinoffs.…”

Section: Firm Survivalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Industrial Dynamics and Clusters: A Survey

2014

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We review the literature on clusters and their effects on entry, exit and growth of firms as well on the evolutionary dynamics underlying the process of cluster formation. Our extensive review shows that there is strong evidence that clusters promote entry, but little evidence that clusters enhance firm growth and firm survival. The emergence of clusters is best understood as an evolutionary process of capability transmission between parent firms and their spinoffs, rather than as an outcome of localisation economies that would increase the performance firms in clusters compared to firms outside clusters. From a number of open questions we distil various future research avenues stressing the importance of understanding firm heterogeneity and the exact mechanisms underlying localisation economies.

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“…Empirical evidence from several clusters illustrates that spinoffs show a higher chance of survival and higher growth rates in comparison to other types of entrants (Boschma and Wenting 2007;Cheyre, Kowalski, and Veloso 2015;Heebels and Boschma 2011;Klepper 2007). Another important empirical result is that spinoffs tend to locate near the prior workplace of their founders.…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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The Role of Pre‐Entry Experience of Firm Founders in Peripheral Regions: Routines, Business Contacts, and Local Starting Conditions

Habersetzer¹

2017

Growth and Change

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This paper investigates how spinoffs in peripheral regions can profit from the work experience of their founders. More specifically, it discusses which firm routines and business contacts entrepreneurs gather through their prior work experience, and how this experience influences the organizational structure and orientation of the newly founded firm. The transfer of capabilities from parent firm to spinoff has been identified as important aspect of industrial clustering, but empirical evidence from peripheral areas is still sparse. It compares 22 semi‐structured interviews with founders of manufacturing firms from different peripheral regions in Switzerland to investigate whether routine and network transfer differs in varying peripheral contexts. The results show that not only inherited routines are important, but also inherited business contacts. Further, instead of simply reproducing acquired routines and networks, founders employ a mixture of continuity and change to find a good trade‐off between relying on well‐proven practices and introducing novelty. Finally, the geographical proximity of inherited business contacts seems to have an influence on the implementation strategy founders choose. Entrepreneurs with strong inherited local business contacts do not have to invest as much in building up new business contacts as those entrepreneurs in more isolated locations.

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Performing in Dutch book publishing 1880-2008: the importance of entrepreneurial experience and the Amsterdam cluster

Cited by 72 publications

References 39 publications

Tourism Evolution: On the Synergies of Tourism Studies and Evolutionary Economic Geography

Tourism Evolution: On the Synergies of Tourism Studies and Evolutionary Economic Geography

Industrial Dynamics and Clusters: A Survey

The Role of Pre‐Entry Experience of Firm Founders in Peripheral Regions: Routines, Business Contacts, and Local Starting Conditions

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