Is there evidence to support Porter-type cluster policies?

Regional Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-49

  McDonald, Frank ^a   Huang, Qihai ^c   Tsagdis, Dimitrios ^b   Tüselmann, Heinz Josef ^c  

^a BRADFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INDUSTRIAL POLICY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34250869116     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343400601136284     Document Type: Article

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