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Transportation and Coordination in Clusters

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  • Leif Gjesing Hansen

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This article describes the role of transportation for industrial clusters. It analyzes the interdependence between production systems (transportation demand) and transportation systems, and argues that for some clusters consisting of small and medium-sized enterprises, transportation plays a crucial role in coordinating the activities and capabilities of firms, thus underpinning external economies. Hence, instead of viewing transportation as a generic infrastructure underlying industrial organization within such clusters, we should treat transportation as a specific and collective resource—a capability—constituting an integrated part of competitive advantage for this type of industrial clusters. The paper illustrates its point with an empirical case study of the Danish Salling furniture cluster.

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  • Leif Gjesing Hansen, 2001. "Transportation and Coordination in Clusters," International Studies of Management & Organization, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(4), pages 73-88, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:4:p:73-88
    DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656828
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    1. Sowjanya Dhulipala & Gopal R. Patil, 2021. "Identification of freight generating industry complexes: A descriptive spatial analysis," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(4), pages 2680-2712, December.
    2. Euijune Kim & Min Jiang & Byula Kim, 2022. "Analyzing impacts of Vietnam’s North–South highway on creation of regional cluster," Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, Springer, vol. 6(2), pages 617-633, June.

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