Peter Maskell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1474684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Maskell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Maskell |
| SIGNATURE | MASKELL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3801-9658 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1087 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Accessing remote knowledge--the roles of trade fairs, pipelines, crowdsourcing and listening posts
Work on clusters during the last few decades convincingly demonstrates enhanced opportunities for local growth and entrepreneurship, but external upstream knowledge linkages are often overlooked or taken for granted. This article is an attempt to remedy this situation by investigating why and how young, single-site firms search for distant sources of complementary competences. The discussion is positioned within a comprehensive framework that all…
Roman Europe, 1,000 BC – AD 400
Edward Bispham, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, xix+377 pp., £55.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-926600-5, £18.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-19-926601-2 This compact volume represents one of the f
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: The role of temporary clusters
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…
Clusters and knowledge: Local buzz, global pipelines and the process of knowledge creation
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 Cluster as Market Organisation
This paper views clusters as a specific spatial configuration of the economy suitable for the creation, transfer and usage of knowledge. It investigates how the modern exchange-economy becomes organised as rent-seeking firms build network relations to create knowledge and obtain resource efficiency while keeping transaction costs at bay. It moves on to consider the cluster as an emerging, self-organising, attractive alternative for interfirm rela…
The Elusive Concept of Localization Economies: Towards a Knowledge-Based Theory of Spatial Clustering
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 Firm in Economic Geography
This article is concerned with the alleged absence in economic geography of a particular microtheoretical foundation that spells out precisely what makes the central actor of the subdiscipline, "the firm," behave and perform the way it does. It especially maintains that economic geography is characterized by the lack of a clear conception and understanding of why this specific form of organizing economic activity exists and prevails in a speciali…
Localised learning and industrial competitiveness
Changes in the international economy have gradually shifted the basis of industrial competitiveness from static price competition towards dynamic improvement, benefiting firms that are able to create knowledge faster than their competitors. The paper argues that proximity between firms plays an important role in interactive learning processes and that knowledge creation is supported by the institutional embodiment of tacit knowledge useful for pa…
The Competitiveness of Firms and Regions: ‘Ubiquitification’ and the Importance of Localized Learning
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…
Competitiveness, Localised Learning and Regional Development: Specialisation and prosperity in small open economies
Localized Low-Tech Learning in the Furniture Industry
Low-Tech Competitive Advantages and the Role Of Proximity: The Danish Wooden Furniture Industry
The prevailing ethos of high-tech production makes it easy to forget that low-tech industries are not synonymous with low growth or low profitability. Even countries with some of the world's highest labour costs have based their economies on an ability to be competitive in labour-intensive, low-tech production. Furniture production is an excellent example of a huge and successful export-oriented European low-tech industry, which is mainly located…
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…
The Channel Tunnel: A Geographical Perspective
Clusters and knowledge: Local buzz, global pipelines and the process of knowledge creation
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: The role of temporary clusters
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: Towards a Knowledge-Based Theory of Spatial Clustering
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: ‘Ubiquitification’ and the Importance of Localized Learning
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…
The Firm in Economic Geography
This article is concerned with the alleged absence in economic geography of a particular microtheoretical foundation that spells out precisely what makes the central actor of the subdiscipline, "the firm," behave and perform the way it does. It especially maintains that economic geography is characterized by the lack of a clear conception and understanding of why this specific form of organizing economic activity exists and prevails in a speciali…
Accessing remote knowledge--the roles of trade fairs, pipelines, crowdsourcing and listening posts
Work on clusters during the last few decades convincingly demonstrates enhanced opportunities for local growth and entrepreneurship, but external upstream knowledge linkages are often overlooked or taken for granted. This article is an attempt to remedy this situation by investigating why and how young, single-site firms search for distant sources of complementary competences. The discussion is positioned within a comprehensive framework that all…
The Cluster as Market Organisation
This paper views clusters as a specific spatial configuration of the economy suitable for the creation, transfer and usage of knowledge. It investigates how the modern exchange-economy becomes organised as rent-seeking firms build network relations to create knowledge and obtain resource efficiency while keeping transaction costs at bay. It moves on to consider the cluster as an emerging, self-organising, attractive alternative for interfirm rela…
Low-Tech Competitive Advantages and the Role Of Proximity: The Danish Wooden Furniture Industry
The prevailing ethos of high-tech production makes it easy to forget that low-tech industries are not synonymous with low growth or low profitability. Even countries with some of the world's highest labour costs have based their economies on an ability to be competitive in labour-intensive, low-tech production. Furniture production is an excellent example of a huge and successful export-oriented European low-tech industry, which is mainly located…
The Channel Tunnel: A Geographical Perspective
The Channel Tunnel: A Geographical Perspective
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…
Competitiveness, Localised Learning and Regional Development: Specialisation and prosperity in small open economies
Localized Low-Tech Learning in the Furniture Industry
Low-Tech Competitive Advantages and the Role Of Proximity: The Danish Wooden Furniture Industry
The prevailing ethos of high-tech production makes it easy to forget that low-tech industries are not synonymous with low growth or low profitability. Even countries with some of the world's highest labour costs have based their economies on an ability to be competitive in labour-intensive, low-tech production. Furniture production is an excellent example of a huge and successful export-oriented European low-tech industry, which is mainly located…
Localised learning and industrial competitiveness
Changes in the international economy have gradually shifted the basis of industrial competitiveness from static price competition towards dynamic improvement, benefiting firms that are able to create knowledge faster than their competitors. The paper argues that proximity between firms plays an important role in interactive learning processes and that knowledge creation is supported by the institutional embodiment of tacit knowledge useful for pa…
The Competitiveness of Firms and Regions: ‘Ubiquitification’ and the Importance of Localized Learning
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…
The Firm in Economic Geography
This article is concerned with the alleged absence in economic geography of a particular microtheoretical foundation that spells out precisely what makes the central actor of the subdiscipline, "the firm," behave and perform the way it does. It especially maintains that economic geography is characterized by the lack of a clear conception and understanding of why this specific form of organizing economic activity exists and prevails in a speciali…
The Elusive Concept of Localization Economies: Towards a Knowledge-Based Theory of Spatial Clustering
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: Local buzz, global pipelines and the process of knowledge creation
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 Cluster as Market Organisation
This paper views clusters as a specific spatial configuration of the economy suitable for the creation, transfer and usage of knowledge. It investigates how the modern exchange-economy becomes organised as rent-seeking firms build network relations to create knowledge and obtain resource efficiency while keeping transaction costs at bay. It moves on to consider the cluster as an emerging, self-organising, attractive alternative for interfirm rela…
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: The role of temporary clusters
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…
Roman Europe, 1,000 BC – AD 400
Edward Bispham, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, xix+377 pp., £55.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-926600-5, £18.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-19-926601-2 This compact volume represents one of the f
Accessing remote knowledge--the roles of trade fairs, pipelines, crowdsourcing and listening posts
Work on clusters during the last few decades convincingly demonstrates enhanced opportunities for local growth and entrepreneurship, but external upstream knowledge linkages are often overlooked or taken for granted. This article is an attempt to remedy this situation by investigating why and how young, single-site firms search for distant sources of complementary competences. The discussion is positioned within a comprehensive framework that all…
Computer Science (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Innovation and Knowledge Management (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Business Strategy and Innovation (6 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Industrial organization (5 works) · Knowledge management (5 works) · Microeconomics (4 works) · Regional Development and Policy (4 works)