IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijesbu/v21y2014i1p55-78.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Shared cluster resources as a source of core capabilities

Author

Listed:
  • Nuno César Cardeal
  • Celine Abecassis-Moedas
  • Nelson Santos António

Abstract

Literature on clusters acknowledges the existence of resources that are shared by firms in the same cluster. The literature on dynamic capabilities argues that in the context of capability development, firms need to develop different business models and to define their firm boundaries in complementary ways. We use a multiple case study approach to analyse how three small- and medium-sized firms belonging to the same cluster but with different business models have been using cluster resources. We find that the some resources are not used in the same way nor for the same purpose. Our inductive investigation leads to two propositions: shared resources that are used the same way by all the cluster firms are not a source of core capabilities to the firms; and shared resources that are used differently by the firms in the cluster are a source of dynamic capabilities which have an impact on the business model.

Suggested Citation

  • Nuno César Cardeal & Celine Abecassis-Moedas & Nelson Santos António, 2014. "Shared cluster resources as a source of core capabilities," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 21(1), pages 55-78.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:21:y:2014:i:1:p:55-78
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=57915
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Raphaël Maucuer & Alexandre Renaud, 2019. "Business Model Research: A Bibliometric Analysis of Origins and Trends," Post-Print hal-01918188, HAL.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:21:y:2014:i:1:p:55-78. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=74 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.