کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1017498 940303 2014 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
“You Can't Make a Good Wine without a Few Beers”: Gatekeepers and knowledge flow in industrial districts
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی مدیریت، کسب و کار و حسابداری کسب و کار و مدیریت بین المللی
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“You Can't Make a Good Wine without a Few Beers”: Gatekeepers and knowledge flow in industrial districts
چکیده انگلیسی

Knowledge sharing sometimes plays a key role in the performance of clustered organizations, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), however, SMEs also face significant knowledge-related disadvantages due to their lack of absorptive capacity and functional expertise. This study investigates the influence of technical specialists on knowledge flow in a wine cluster in Australia. The main contribution of this paper is a finding that the technical specialist's gatekeeping role both links clustered SMEs to the global wine “systemworld” by transferring knowledge of technical developments and innovation, and simultaneously develops and refines regional winemaking styles by sharing locally specific, experientially derived knowledge. Technical specialists drew on bridging and bonding social capital to identify and retrieve specialist knowledge, and were capable of assimilating complex technical knowledge into the cluster. These findings are particularly significant because recipients were typically small and micro-firms, which are frequently located outside cluster knowledge-network.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Business Research - Volume 67, Issue 10, October 2014, Pages 2198–2206
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