Conceptualizing Clusters as Dynamic and Path-Dependent Pools of Skills
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10407262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward Kasabov (0000-0002-9049-5566, Economic and Social Research Council, corresponding author), Usha Sundaram (Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK.) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1520-1536 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Regional Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-3404 • E-ISSN: 1360-0591 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00343404.2015.1037826 |
| OpenAlex | W2229823545 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 87 |
Kasabov E. and Sundaram U. Conceptualizing clusters as dynamic and path-dependent pools of skills, Regional Studies. This paper conceptualizes clusters as pools of dynamic, path-dependent skills that sustain economic resilience, transformation and development. It draws on extensive archival, historical material and empirical findings from the city of Coventry, UK, to demonstrate the long-term nature and processes of skills accumulation, growth and development. This novel approach to theorizing and understanding clusters provides a critique of current cluster conceptualizations, and offers an alternative imaginary to understanding agglomerations of economic activity. The paper also highlights problems and failures in cluster development and their sustenance through a skills pool. It develops implications for the sustained nourishment and replenishment of skills and validates skills as a critical unit of observation and analysis of clusters. The paper provides a longitudinal, socio-historical account of clusters that morph and evolve over time through the reconfiguration of path-dependent skills in support of the conceptualization
Biology · Cluster (spacecraft · Conceptualization · Control reconfiguration · Economic geography · Economics · Geography · Microeconomics · Path (computing · Path dependence · Psychological resilience · Sociology · Sustenance · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Ecology · Psychology · Regional Development and Policy · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Regional resilience and development · Social Psychology
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