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How the practice of clustering shapes cluster emergence

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  • Anna M. Stephens
  • Jörgen Sandberg

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How successful clusters emerge remains unclear. The paper investigates how the exercise of system-level agency contributes to cluster emergence. It applies a practice perspective and finds that system-level agency is enabled by the ‘practice of clustering’: a recurring set of coordinated and future-oriented activities through which regional actors collectively attempt to restructure the regional context to support cluster emergence better. The findings suggest that the specific practice of clustering that takes root in a given region helps explain why some nascent agglomerations develop into a functioning and viable cluster, while others do not.

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  • Anna M. Stephens & Jörgen Sandberg, 2020. "How the practice of clustering shapes cluster emergence," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(5), pages 596-609, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:54:y:2020:i:5:p:596-609
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2019.1667967
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    1. Maximilian Benner, 2021. "System-level agency and its many shades: How to shape the system for path development?," PEGIS geo-disc-2021_10, Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience, Department of Socioeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business.
    2. Tobias König, 2023. "Between collaboration and competition: co‐located clusters of different industries in one region—the context of Tuttlingen's medical engineering and metal processing industries," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 15(2), pages 288-325, April.
    3. Maximilian Benner, 2021. "Revisiting path-as-process: A railroad track model of path development, transformation, and agency," PEGIS geo-disc-2021_09, Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience, Department of Socioeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business.

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