The Investigation and Analysis of Relationship Industrial Clustering and the improvement of Learning Capabilities in the Printing / Publishing and Furniture Industries in Qom Metropolis
Subject Areas : Industrial Management
Hashem Dadashpoor
1
,
Mahdi Pourtaheri
2
,
Abolfazl Moarrefi
3
1 - Assistant Professor,Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor,Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran
3 - M.A Student in Geography and Urban Planning, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran
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Abstract :
The industrial cluster approach is one of the successful approaches for regional development, Causes the improvement of learning capabilities in the urban and regional environment, using physical, social-cultural, economic and institutional proximities of the surrounding environment. This paper aims to The Investigation and Analysis of Relationship Industrial Clustering And the improvement of learning capabilities in the Printing / Publishing and Furniture Industries in Qom’ Metropolis. This is a survey-based study (184 completed questionnaires) whit applied approach which required information gathered through the library study and fieldwork. The Study’s sample size is based on the “minimum sample size for population table” ( 94 firms in the furniture industry and 90 firms in the publishing industry) and “Stratified random sampling method”. Furthermore, apparent validity, content validity and reliability of test are verified by “using experts”, “KMO and Bartlett's sphericity test” and “Cronbach's alpha test” respectively. Research instruments include learning capability questionnaire with 10 items and institutional cluster proximities with 36 items. Using Pearson correlation, data obtained by questionnaires are analyzed. Findings indicated that: printing/ publishing industry cluster with social-cultural and economic proximities industrial cluster furniture with only social-cultural proximity and general characteristics of both industrial firm’s (education manager/owner firms, the number of workers, the age of establishing and average annual sales of the firm) indicate a significant relationship between improvement of learning capabilities. Moreover, it seems that institutional, physical and economical proximities in the furniture industry and institution, physical proximities in printing/publishing industry haven’t a significant role in the learning capabilities enhancement. This study recommends that proximities of institutional, physical, economic, social-cultural industries should be strengthened for the success of these clusters and improvement of learning capabilities and finally stimulates regional development.
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1- Albu, M. (1997). Technological Learning and Innovation in Industrial Clusters in the South(Doctoral Dissertation). University of Sussex.
2- Adriani, P. (2003). Evolutionary dynamics of industrial clusters” In Mitleton-Kelly, E. (Ed) Complex systems and evolutionary perspectives on organizations: The application of complexity theory to organizations. E. Mitleton-Kelly Oxford, 73(2), 127–146.
3- Asheim, B. (1995). Industrial districts as ‘learning regions’. A condition for prosperity? European Planning Studies, 4(4) ,379-400
4- Bathelt, H. Malmberg, A. Maskell, P. (2004). Clusters and Knowledge: Local Buzz, Global Pipelines and the Process of Knowledge Creation, Progress in Human Geography, 28(1), 31-56.
5- Beerpoot. (2007). Learning and entrepreneurship in the furniture cluster in Metro Cebu, the Philippines, International Development Planning Review, 29(1), 23-42.
6- Bellandi, M. (1994). Decentralized industrial creativity in dynamic industrial districts, in Technological dynamism in industrial districts: An alternative approach to industrialization in developing countries? Unctad, United Nations, New York and Geneva, 73-87.
7- Carrillo, J.F. (2006). “Knowledge Cities” ,Butterworth-Heinemann
8- Dadashpoor, H. (2009).Industrial Clusters, Learning, Innovation and Regional Development, Rahbord-E-Yas, 18(1), 53-73.
9- Dadashpoor, H & Ahmadi, F. (2010). Regional Competitiveness as a new Approach to Regional Development, Rahbord-E-Yas, 22(1), 51-80.
10- Dadashpoor, H & Andrew, A. (2007). Industrial Clustering, Learning And Innovation in the Tehran Metropolitan Region: Empirical Evidence of the Electronics”, Studies in regional Science, 37(2), 471-499.
11- Dadashpoor, H & Andrew, A. (2010). “Industrial Clustering, Innovation and Competitive Advantage in the Metropolitan Regions: Evidence from the Auto-parts Cluster within the Tehran Metropolitan Region”, International Journal Humanities, 17(1), 19-46.
12- Ferreira .M.P. & Serra. F.A.R. (2008). Open and closed industry clusters: The social structure of innovation, Working Papers 24, global advantage, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria.
13- Fritsch, M, Kauffeld-monz, M. (2008). “The impact of network structure on knowledge transfer: an application of social network analysis in the context of regional innovation networks”, The Annals of Regional Science, 44(1), 21-38.
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18- Loviscek, A. Louis. (1980). Inter-industry Linkages And Industrial Clusters: A Comparative Analysis (Doctoral thesis), Morgantown, West Virginia.
19- Maskell, Peter. (1998). Low-Tech Competitive Advantages and Role of Proximity: The Danish Wooden Furniture Industry, European Urban and Regional Studies, 5(2), 99-118.
20- Mehprpoya, A. & Majidi, J.(2004).External Economies And Cooperation In Industrial Districts, Rasa Peeress, First Edition, (Translated in Persian).
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