Zastosowanie metodologii teorii ugruntowanej (GTM) w badaniu koopetycji w klastrach (GTM’s applicability for studying coopetition in clusters)

Clusters are defined as geographic concentrations of interconnected companies and associated institutions representing particular economic sector which compete and cooperate. The richness of cluster’s definition (difficulty in unified identifying, diagnosing the grapes), imprecise nature of cluster (as an economic and social phenomenon)in conjunction with the importance of the meaningof a specific location as a context for specific activities of the cluster along with the inherent nature of the competitive cooperation, immanent for the clusters, justify the use of the grounded theory methodology (GTM) for their exploration. It aims at both proving the thesis discussing the usefulness of applying the grounded theory methodology in exploring clusters’ coopetition as well as exemplifying such application for studying clusters’ internationalization processes.