IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/rai/joeems/doi_10.1688-1862-0019_jeems_2012_04_zamborsky.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Emergence of transnational clusters: Evidence from the Slovak automotive industry

Author

Listed:
  • Peter Zámborsky

Abstract

We explore the evolution of automotive clusters in Slovakia from the emergence to growth stages of their life cycles and investigate how the clusters spill over national borders. We also analyze how clusters and their transnationality affect firm competitiveness. Our findings suggest that although the clusters have an overall positive impact on competitiveness of participating firms, it is not the transnational cluster linkages that matter most for the emerging clusters. Linkages with firms in the same group in Central Europe matter more for competitiveness than shared institutions and linkages arising from geographic proximity.

Suggested Citation

  • Peter Zámborsky, 2012. "Emergence of transnational clusters: Evidence from the Slovak automotive industry," Journal of East European Management Studies, Rainer Hampp Verlag, vol. 17(4), pages 464-479.
  • Handle: RePEc:rai:joeems:doi_10.1688/1862-0019_jeems_2012_04_zamborsky
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.hampp-verlag.de/hampp_e-journals_JEMS.htm#412
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

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


    Cited by:

    1. Miroslav Šipikal & Milan Buček, 2018. "The Role of FDI in Regional Innovation and Its Influence on the Emergence of Knowledge Spillover Effects," Advances in Spatial Science, in: Jan Stejskal & Petr Hajek & Oto Hudec (ed.), Knowledge Spillovers in Regional Innovation Systems, pages 195-218, Springer.
    2. Jan Stejskal & Petr Hajek & Oto Hudec (ed.), 2018. "Knowledge Spillovers in Regional Innovation Systems," Advances in Spatial Science, Springer, number 978-3-319-67029-4, Fall.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    cluster life-cycle; transnationality; competitiveness; automotive;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General
    • L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure
    • L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production
    • L62 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - Automobiles; Other Transportation Equipment; Related Parts and Equipment
    • M20 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics - - - General
    • P20 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - General
    • P30 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    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:rai:joeems:doi_10.1688/1862-0019_jeems_2012_04_zamborsky. 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: Rainer Hampp (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.hampp-verlag.de/ .

    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.