The Benefits of Learning in Clusters
Analyzing Upward Mobility for Skilled Workers in the Cebu Furniture Cluster
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4140273 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Niels Beerepoot (0000-0002-0680-4312, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 2435-2452 |
| Publication date | 2008-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a39301 |
| OpenAlex | W2091034602 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 28 |
Recent debates emphasize the role of collective learning as a major factor in facilitating and maintaining competitiveness for clusters of small enterprises in developing countries. However, few studies on learning in industrial clusters in developing countries have analyzed the benefits from learning by looking at improved workers' positions and conditions in the cluster. This paper fills this gap in the existing literature by focusing on whether workers in the furniture cluster in Metro Cebu (the Philippines) have access to upward mobility within employment in the cluster, based on their formal and informal learning. This paper demonstrates that their 'embodied expertise' is rewarded only to a small extent and labour movements are more the result of job insecurity than of pursuing opportunities for upward mobility within employment
Business · Demographic economics · Developing country · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Embodied cognition · Informal learning · Labour economics · Pedagogy · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology
Industrial districts and local economic regeneration
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
Localized Learning Revisited
International trade and industrial upgrading in the apparel commodity chain
The governance of global value chains
Knowledge creation, learning and innovation in italian industrial districts
Clusters and knowledge
Is there an “industrial district model”? Footwear districts in Italy and Mexico compared
Can industrial outwork enhance homeworkers’ capabilities? Evidence from clusters in South Asia
The Changing Global Geography of Low-Technology, Labor-Intensive Industry
Small shoemakers and fordist giants
How to Promote Clusters
Industrial Clusters, Knowledge Integration and Performance
Of networks and markets
Regional push
Collective Learning by Artisanal Subcontractors in a Philippine Furniture Cluster
The wealth of regions
Regions, Globalization, Development
The Learning Economy, the Learning Firm and the Learning Region
Tacit knowledge and the economic geography of context, or The undefinable tacitness of being (there)
Global production and local jobs
Industrial Restructuring and Early Industry Pathways in the Asian First-Generation NICs
The Elusive Concept of Localization Economies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |