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| Author: | Camisón, C. Forés, B. |
| Title: | Knowledge creation and absorptive capacity: The effect of intra-district shared competencies |
| Journal: | Scandinavian Journal of Management
2011 : MAR, VOL. 27:1 p. 66-86 |
| Index terms: | industries competencies organizational learning Spain networks |
| Freeterms: | knowledge spillovers |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper takes a cross-level approach in contributing to defining the competences accumulated and shared in an industrial district, and to explaining how they differ from firm-specific, knowledge-based capacities. From a dataset of 952 Spanish firms and 35 industrial districts, the paper proposes empirical evidence that industrial districts are spaces with dense networks of information and knowledge transfer, inter-personnel relationships and a strong specialized stock of human capital, which are accessible and shared by all firms embedded in such a district. The complementarity between district and firm-specific capacities is explained. |
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