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Cluster Advantage and Firm Performance: A Shift into the Future!

Authors : Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver, Fiorenza Belussi

Published in: Agglomeration and Firm Performance

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Abstract

The spatial concentration or agglomeration of economic activity leads to the emergence of externalities in the form of collective resource pools.

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Footnotes
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Marshall (1890), Arrow (1962) and Romer (1986) put forward a concept, which was later formalized by the seminal work of Glaeser et al. (1992) and became known as the Marshall-Arrow-Romer (MAR) mode.
 
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Metadata
Title
Cluster Advantage and Firm Performance: A Shift into the Future!
Authors
Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver
Fiorenza Belussi
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Agglomeration and Firm Performance

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-90574-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-90575-4

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90575-4_1