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What Accounts for the Resilience and Vulnerability of Clusters? The Case of Istanbul's Film Industry

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  • Özlem Öz
  • Kaya Özkaracalar

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In this paper, the film cluster in Turkey's cultural capital, Istanbul, is examined with the ultimate purpose of contributing towards a better understanding of the dynamics shaping the resilience and vulnerability of clusters. The paper seeks to shed light on the issue of how and why, in the face of a similar set of threats, Hollywood has proved so resilient but Istanbul's film cluster so vulnerable. Scrutinizing the emergence and the subsequent lock-in of the particular path followed by the Istanbul cluster and investigating the attributes of the proximate business environment that have been shaped along the way reveal that sustainability of a cluster seems to depend on three interrelated factors: how the cluster participants strategically respond to the upcoming threats, the structural capacity of the cluster to overcome such threats, and finally, the macro-socio-economic conditions (both at the national and global levels) against which the challenges occur and which mitigate or exacerbate them.

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  • Özlem Öz & Kaya Özkaracalar, 2010. "What Accounts for the Resilience and Vulnerability of Clusters? The Case of Istanbul's Film Industry," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(3), pages 361-378, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:19:y:2010:i:3:p:361-378
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2011.548355
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