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Emerging clusters: the importance of legitimacy, path advocates, and narratives

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How new industrial pathways of development evolve has captured much attention in evolutionary economic geography lately. The role of path advocates and their narratives is deemed integral to legitimizing new industrial and technological pathways in regions. This paper investigates how the increasingly popular concept of legitimacy can shed light on the emergence of the London and Singapore software clusters. It finds that multiple concurrent clusters were emerging in these cities, the legitimization of which shaped the present-day clusters. The paper provides a novel rethinking of the cluster emergence process using a legitimacy perspective that highlights the varied importance of normative, cognitive, and regulatory legitimacies and the scales they emerge at, and contributes to understandings of inter-path dynamics and the role of path advocates and their narratives.

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  • Jack Laurie Harris, 2021. "Emerging clusters: the importance of legitimacy, path advocates, and narratives," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(5), pages 942-961, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:29:y:2021:i:5:p:942-961
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2020.1817864
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    1. Kristina Grumadaitė & Giedrius Jucevičius, 2022. "Strategic Approaches to the Development of Complex Organisational Ecosystems: The Case of Lithuanian Clusters," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(23), pages 1-13, November.
    2. Di Wu & Neil M. Coe, 2023. "Bottom-up cluster branding through boundary spanners: The case of the Jingdezhen ceramics cluster in China," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 60(14), pages 2874-2900, November.
    3. Maximilian Benner, 2022. "Legitimizing path development by interlinking institutional logics: The case of Israel's desert tourism," PEGIS geo-disc-2022_01, Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience, Department of Socioeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business.
    4. Lu Zhang & Xuanzhi Yang & Sulu Zhu & Zhengyi Xia, 2023. "Business Model Innovation and Performance of Startups: The Moderating Role of External Legitimacy," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(6), pages 1-20, March.
    5. Maximilian Benner, 2021. "A tale of sky and desert: Translation and imaginaries in transnational windows of institutional opportunity," PEGIS geo-disc-2021_08, Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience, Department of Socioeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business.

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