Competitiveness Review: Volume 34 Issue 3

Guest editorial: The resilience of clusters and cluster policies

Matthias Kiese, Christian Ketels, Dirk Fornahl

The resilience of German regions facing the crisis in 2008/2009: the effects of innovation, specialisation, qualifications and sectoral structure

Fatih Celebioglu, Thomas Brenner

The purpose of this paper is to explain the effects of innovation, specialisation, qualifications and sectoral structure on the resilience of German regions (municipal level…

Is ambidexterity crucial for cluster resilience? Conceptional consideration and empirical evidence

Michael Rothgang, Bernhard Lageman

This study, a conceptual paper, aims an answer the question, how significant cluster ambidexterity is for the resilience of individual clusters.

Economic agglomeration in the age of Industry 4.0: developing a digital industrial cluster as a new policy tool for the digital world

Rudy Fernandez-Escobedo, Begoña Eguía-Peña, Leire Aldaz-Odriozola

This conceptual paper aims to develop the vision of a novel policy tool called the digital industrial cluster (DIC) thought for a future context shaped by digital economies and…

Collective shared value creation as emergent strategy for cluster management organizations

Stephanie Francis Grimbert, James R. Wilson, Xavier Amores Bravo, Alberto Pezzi

Cluster management organizations (CMOs) have emerged over the past few decades as intermediaries that support the competitiveness of place-based clusters of economic activity…

New growth of the Douro wine cluster

Svitlana Magalhães de Sousa Ostapenko, Ana Paula Africano, Raquel Meneses

This study aims to further develop the CLC stage/path’s identification model that distinguishes between path’s emergence (emergence stage), path’s development (growth stage)…

The hedonic well-being index for measuring city competitiveness – an exploratory study

Boon-Seng Tan

This paper aims to explore the construction of a valid and reliable measure for the competitiveness of cities that excludes the drivers of competitiveness from the index…

The competitiveness of Portugal: views from the market

Gustavo Silva, Leandro F. Pereira, José Crespo Carvalho, Rui Vinhas da Silva, Ana Simoes

This study aims to conduct a pertinent assessment of the concept of business competitiveness and how Portugal can progress in that field, for the sake of becoming a more…

Technological anxiety during the implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies – a cross-case study analysis among Polish manufacturing companies

Maja Sajdak, Michał Młody

This paper aims to identify the basis of the technological anxiety phenomenon by defining the differences and similarities in terms of barriers of the implementation of Industry…