Imitation without interaction: How firms identify with clusters

Organization Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 153-174

  Staber, Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Collective identity; Imitation; Regional cluster; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949352253     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840609357369     Document Type: Article

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