Anders Malmberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1474625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anders Malmberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anders |
| FAMILY NAME | Malmberg |
| SIGNATURE | MALMBERG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1,226 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Brain circulation and flexible adjustment
This article explores the role of labour mobility as a potential cluster advantage. We review the theoretical arguments as for how and why labour mobility could enhance the dynamism and performance of clusters of similar and related firms. A combination of quantitative and qualitative data from two information and communication technology (ICT) clusters is used to answer two research questions: (1) What is the role of mobility enhancing (or restr…
The Spaces and Places of Swedish Fashion
Fashion companies are involved not only in producing material commodities (clothes), but also in the parallel production of ideas (fashion). The consistent use of outsourcing in the fashion industry means that material production is constantly on the move to low-cost locations. Still high-cost countries have managed to retain a sizable presence in the world of fashion. For firms in such countries, the creation of value and profitability commonly …
Localized Learning Revisited
The concept of localized learning outlines how local conditions and spatial proximity between actors enable the formation of distinctive cognitive repertoires and influence the generation and selection of skills, processes, and products within a field of knowledge or activity. The localized learning argument consists of two distinct yet related elements. One has to do with localized capabilities that enhance learning, while the other concerns the…
Building global knowledge pipelines
Business people and professionals come together regularly at trade fairs, exhibitions, conventions, congresses, and conferences. Here, their latest and most advanced findings, inventions and products are on display to be evaluated by customers and suppliers, as well as by peers and competitors. Participation in events like these helps firms to identify the current market frontier, take stock of relative competitive positions and form future plans…
(How) Do (Firms in) Clusters Create Knowledge?
The literature on clusters and cluster building has been rapidly growing both in academic and policy‐making circles. Central to this interest and body of work has been the assumption that location in clusters helps firms to exchange, acquire and generate new knowledge. Since knowledge is increasingly believed to be the basis of firm competitiveness clustered firms and industries will outperform others. This paper sets out to examine the evidence …
Clusters and knowledge
The paper is concerned with spatial clustering of economic activity and its relation to the spatiality of knowledge creation in interactive learning processes. It questions the view that tacit knowledge transfer is confined to local milieus whereas codified knowledge may roam the globe almost frictionlessly. The paper highlights the conditions under which both tacit and codified knowledge can be exchanged locally and globally. A distinction is ma…
The Elusive Concept of Localization Economies
A number of possible advantages of industry agglomeration-or spatial clustering-have been identified in the research literature, notably those related to shared costs for infrastructure, the build-up of a skilled labour force, transaction efficiency, and knowledge spillovers leading to firm learning and innovation. We identify two shortcomings of existing research on the clustering phenomenon. First, the abundance of theoretical concepts and expl…
Firms in Territories
The role of space and place in shaping the transformation of firms and industries and the impact of such transformations on the wider processes of territorial development at local, regional, national, and global scales are basic research issues in economic geography. Such analyses tend to be compartmentalized, focusing on a specific economic activity or on a specific territory, rather than on the relationships between them. It is difficult simult…
Agglomeration and Firm Performance
In the 1990s, there has been an increase in interest in the spatial agglomeration of similar and related firms and industries. The recent literature is, however, marked by a lack of balance between theoretical development and empirical validation of the importance of agglomeration economies. Our aim in this paper is to redress the balance by assessing empirically the impact of various types of agglomeration economies on export performance. Our st…
The Competitiveness of Firms and Regions
In traditional location theory there is a distinction between factors of production for which the costs differ significantly between locations, on the one hand, and production inputs which are in practice available everywhere at more or less the same cost (i.e. so-called ubiquities) on the other. In this article, we discuss the process whereby some previously important location factors are actively converted into ubiquities. With an admittedly ra…
Innovations, competitiveness and local embeddedness
This paper is about technological relations and firm performance in the Swedish machinery industry. Taking its point of departure in the proliferating literature on the localized nature of learning and innovation processes, the paper sets out to answer three empirical questions: To what extent are firms integrated in localized production systems based on buyer‐supplier relations? At what geographical level–local/regional, national or internationa…
Innovations, Competitiveness and Local Embeddedness
Competitiveness, Localised Learning and Regional Development
Towards an explanation of regional specialization and industry agglomeration
The main argument advanced in this paper is that proximity matters. Product innovations, new forms of organization or new skills are arrived at in interactive processes within industrial systems. Such systems are embedded in a broader cultural and institutional context. Everything else being equal, interactive collaboration will be less costly and more smooth, the shorter the distance between the participants. The benefits of proximity can be tra…
Industrial geography
Attraction, Competition and Regional Development in Europe
This paper deals with one particular representation of the increasing interest in regional issues in contemporary Europe: the proliferation of academic studies and consultancy reports aiming to assess the attractiveness and competitiveness of cities and regions. At the heart of the paper is a review of a number of such studies. Some of them set out to identify the 'hottest' regions for investors, often presenting their results in various forms of…
Theme Issue
Development, Geography, and Economic Theory
Spatial Clustering, Local Accumulation of Knowledge and Firm Competitiveness
This paper draws together theory on spatial agglomeration of economic activity, innovation processes, and international business to address the phenomena of spatial clustering, accumulation of knowledge in local milieux and firm competitiveness. It builds a conceptual model explaining the process of local knowledge accumulation and why there are important barriers to the diffusion of knowledge from one local milieu to another. The role of transna…
Industrial geography
For more than a century, economic geographers and economists have shared an interest in the phenomenon of spatial agglomeration of economic activity, as the heritage from Marshall (1916/1890), Weber (1929/1909), Hoover (1948), Chinitz (1961) and others testifies. ’Classical agglomeration theory ’ evolved in response to three empirical obser
Industrial geography
Clusters and knowledge
The paper is concerned with spatial clustering of economic activity and its relation to the spatiality of knowledge creation in interactive learning processes. It questions the view that tacit knowledge transfer is confined to local milieus whereas codified knowledge may roam the globe almost frictionlessly. The paper highlights the conditions under which both tacit and codified knowledge can be exchanged locally and globally. A distinction is ma…
Building global knowledge pipelines
Business people and professionals come together regularly at trade fairs, exhibitions, conventions, congresses, and conferences. Here, their latest and most advanced findings, inventions and products are on display to be evaluated by customers and suppliers, as well as by peers and competitors. Participation in events like these helps firms to identify the current market frontier, take stock of relative competitive positions and form future plans…
The Elusive Concept of Localization Economies
A number of possible advantages of industry agglomeration-or spatial clustering-have been identified in the research literature, notably those related to shared costs for infrastructure, the build-up of a skilled labour force, transaction efficiency, and knowledge spillovers leading to firm learning and innovation. We identify two shortcomings of existing research on the clustering phenomenon. First, the abundance of theoretical concepts and expl…
The Competitiveness of Firms and Regions
In traditional location theory there is a distinction between factors of production for which the costs differ significantly between locations, on the one hand, and production inputs which are in practice available everywhere at more or less the same cost (i.e. so-called ubiquities) on the other. In this article, we discuss the process whereby some previously important location factors are actively converted into ubiquities. With an admittedly ra…
Firms in Territories
The role of space and place in shaping the transformation of firms and industries and the impact of such transformations on the wider processes of territorial development at local, regional, national, and global scales are basic research issues in economic geography. Such analyses tend to be compartmentalized, focusing on a specific economic activity or on a specific territory, rather than on the relationships between them. It is difficult simult…
Spatial Clustering, Local Accumulation of Knowledge and Firm Competitiveness
This paper draws together theory on spatial agglomeration of economic activity, innovation processes, and international business to address the phenomena of spatial clustering, accumulation of knowledge in local milieux and firm competitiveness. It builds a conceptual model explaining the process of local knowledge accumulation and why there are important barriers to the diffusion of knowledge from one local milieu to another. The role of transna…
Industrial geography
For more than a century, economic geographers and economists have shared an interest in the phenomenon of spatial agglomeration of economic activity, as the heritage from Marshall (1916/1890), Weber (1929/1909), Hoover (1948), Chinitz (1961) and others testifies. ’Classical agglomeration theory ’ evolved in response to three empirical obser
Industrial geography
Agglomeration and Firm Performance
In the 1990s, there has been an increase in interest in the spatial agglomeration of similar and related firms and industries. The recent literature is, however, marked by a lack of balance between theoretical development and empirical validation of the importance of agglomeration economies. Our aim in this paper is to redress the balance by assessing empirically the impact of various types of agglomeration economies on export performance. Our st…
Industrial geography
Innovations, Competitiveness and Local Embeddedness
Development, Geography, and Economic Theory
Brain circulation and flexible adjustment
This article explores the role of labour mobility as a potential cluster advantage. We review the theoretical arguments as for how and why labour mobility could enhance the dynamism and performance of clusters of similar and related firms. A combination of quantitative and qualitative data from two information and communication technology (ICT) clusters is used to answer two research questions: (1) What is the role of mobility enhancing (or restr…
Attraction, Competition and Regional Development in Europe
This paper deals with one particular representation of the increasing interest in regional issues in contemporary Europe: the proliferation of academic studies and consultancy reports aiming to assess the attractiveness and competitiveness of cities and regions. At the heart of the paper is a review of a number of such studies. Some of them set out to identify the 'hottest' regions for investors, often presenting their results in various forms of…
Theme Issue
Innovations, competitiveness and local embeddedness
This paper is about technological relations and firm performance in the Swedish machinery industry. Taking its point of departure in the proliferating literature on the localized nature of learning and innovation processes, the paper sets out to answer three empirical questions: To what extent are firms integrated in localized production systems based on buyer‐supplier relations? At what geographical level–local/regional, national or internationa…
Industrial geography
Attraction, Competition and Regional Development in Europe
This paper deals with one particular representation of the increasing interest in regional issues in contemporary Europe: the proliferation of academic studies and consultancy reports aiming to assess the attractiveness and competitiveness of cities and regions. At the heart of the paper is a review of a number of such studies. Some of them set out to identify the 'hottest' regions for investors, often presenting their results in various forms of…
Theme Issue
Development, Geography, and Economic Theory
Spatial Clustering, Local Accumulation of Knowledge and Firm Competitiveness
This paper draws together theory on spatial agglomeration of economic activity, innovation processes, and international business to address the phenomena of spatial clustering, accumulation of knowledge in local milieux and firm competitiveness. It builds a conceptual model explaining the process of local knowledge accumulation and why there are important barriers to the diffusion of knowledge from one local milieu to another. The role of transna…
Industrial geography
For more than a century, economic geographers and economists have shared an interest in the phenomenon of spatial agglomeration of economic activity, as the heritage from Marshall (1916/1890), Weber (1929/1909), Hoover (1948), Chinitz (1961) and others testifies. ’Classical agglomeration theory ’ evolved in response to three empirical obser
Towards an explanation of regional specialization and industry agglomeration
The main argument advanced in this paper is that proximity matters. Product innovations, new forms of organization or new skills are arrived at in interactive processes within industrial systems. Such systems are embedded in a broader cultural and institutional context. Everything else being equal, interactive collaboration will be less costly and more smooth, the shorter the distance between the participants. The benefits of proximity can be tra…
Industrial geography
Competitiveness, Localised Learning and Regional Development
The Competitiveness of Firms and Regions
In traditional location theory there is a distinction between factors of production for which the costs differ significantly between locations, on the one hand, and production inputs which are in practice available everywhere at more or less the same cost (i.e. so-called ubiquities) on the other. In this article, we discuss the process whereby some previously important location factors are actively converted into ubiquities. With an admittedly ra…
Innovations, competitiveness and local embeddedness
This paper is about technological relations and firm performance in the Swedish machinery industry. Taking its point of departure in the proliferating literature on the localized nature of learning and innovation processes, the paper sets out to answer three empirical questions: To what extent are firms integrated in localized production systems based on buyer‐supplier relations? At what geographical level–local/regional, national or internationa…
Innovations, Competitiveness and Local Embeddedness
Agglomeration and Firm Performance
In the 1990s, there has been an increase in interest in the spatial agglomeration of similar and related firms and industries. The recent literature is, however, marked by a lack of balance between theoretical development and empirical validation of the importance of agglomeration economies. Our aim in this paper is to redress the balance by assessing empirically the impact of various types of agglomeration economies on export performance. Our st…
Firms in Territories
The role of space and place in shaping the transformation of firms and industries and the impact of such transformations on the wider processes of territorial development at local, regional, national, and global scales are basic research issues in economic geography. Such analyses tend to be compartmentalized, focusing on a specific economic activity or on a specific territory, rather than on the relationships between them. It is difficult simult…
The Elusive Concept of Localization Economies
A number of possible advantages of industry agglomeration-or spatial clustering-have been identified in the research literature, notably those related to shared costs for infrastructure, the build-up of a skilled labour force, transaction efficiency, and knowledge spillovers leading to firm learning and innovation. We identify two shortcomings of existing research on the clustering phenomenon. First, the abundance of theoretical concepts and expl…
Clusters and knowledge
The paper is concerned with spatial clustering of economic activity and its relation to the spatiality of knowledge creation in interactive learning processes. It questions the view that tacit knowledge transfer is confined to local milieus whereas codified knowledge may roam the globe almost frictionlessly. The paper highlights the conditions under which both tacit and codified knowledge can be exchanged locally and globally. A distinction is ma…
(How) Do (Firms in) Clusters Create Knowledge?
The literature on clusters and cluster building has been rapidly growing both in academic and policy‐making circles. Central to this interest and body of work has been the assumption that location in clusters helps firms to exchange, acquire and generate new knowledge. Since knowledge is increasingly believed to be the basis of firm competitiveness clustered firms and industries will outperform others. This paper sets out to examine the evidence …
Localized Learning Revisited
The concept of localized learning outlines how local conditions and spatial proximity between actors enable the formation of distinctive cognitive repertoires and influence the generation and selection of skills, processes, and products within a field of knowledge or activity. The localized learning argument consists of two distinct yet related elements. One has to do with localized capabilities that enhance learning, while the other concerns the…
Building global knowledge pipelines
Business people and professionals come together regularly at trade fairs, exhibitions, conventions, congresses, and conferences. Here, their latest and most advanced findings, inventions and products are on display to be evaluated by customers and suppliers, as well as by peers and competitors. Participation in events like these helps firms to identify the current market frontier, take stock of relative competitive positions and form future plans…
The Spaces and Places of Swedish Fashion
Fashion companies are involved not only in producing material commodities (clothes), but also in the parallel production of ideas (fashion). The consistent use of outsourcing in the fashion industry means that material production is constantly on the move to low-cost locations. Still high-cost countries have managed to retain a sizable presence in the world of fashion. For firms in such countries, the creation of value and profitability commonly …
Brain circulation and flexible adjustment
This article explores the role of labour mobility as a potential cluster advantage. We review the theoretical arguments as for how and why labour mobility could enhance the dynamism and performance of clusters of similar and related firms. A combination of quantitative and qualitative data from two information and communication technology (ICT) clusters is used to answer two research questions: (1) What is the role of mobility enhancing (or restr…
Economic geography (14 works) · Economics (14 works) · Business (12 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Innovation and Knowledge Management (10 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Regional science (9 works) · Industrial organization (8 works) · Regional Development and Policy (8 works)