Interactions Within a Cluster in the Context of the Network Interfirm Cooperation

Cluster members are in the state of constant resource and factor exchange and distribution. These interactions should be viewed in the context of the concept of the network interfirm cooperation. The purpose of the article is to: (1) substantiate profits of economic subjects from participating in network relations; (2) study peculiarities of network interfirm cooperation of the members of a cluster organization in the context of the resource-oriented approach; (3) study the resource and factor interactions within a cluster with the help of the model of economic space and institutional field. The survey is based on a complex analysis of interfirm networks, as a means of regulating interdependence between companies and the process of unification of efforts of cluster members during using production resources and factors within a cluster. The findings confirmed that the possibility of economy by cluster members with expenditures for transaction factors during interaction between each other should be viewed as a condition that predetermines the effect of network cooperation in a cluster.