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| Author: | Waite, P. Williams, P. |
| Title: | Collaboration or opportunism? The role of social capital in developing successful export clusters |
| Journal: | Journal of Strategic Marketing
2009 : DEC, VOL 17:6, p. 499-512 |
| Index terms: | Australia small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) exporting |
| Freeterms: | industry clusters social capital |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper presents an exploratory study into social capital (henceforth as: soc-cap.) with its influence on the development of horizontal export-focused industry clusters (here as: i-cltrs.) for small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs). It is contended that higher levels of soc-cap. within firms can be externalized to other firms in i-cltrs. which makes the cluster more effective in international markets. The levels of evident soc-cap. are assessed across three different i-cltrs. within nine individual SMEs based in South East Queensland, Australia. Evaluated are attitudes of the firm towards its other cluster members. It is found that higher levels of soc-cap. within individual SMEs was being externalized to their i-cltrs. which helped the firms to develop long-term relationships and common objectives and also improve levels of trust among members. |
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