Planning for path dependence? The case of a network in the Berlin-Brandenburg optics cluster

Economic Geography

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 173-195

  Sydow, Jörg ^a   Lerch, Frank ^a   Staber, Udo ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cluster network optical technologies path dependence structuration theory

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECISION ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; NETWORK ANALYSIS;

BERLIN; BRANDENBURG; GERMANY;

EID: 77950202357     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: 19448287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2010.01067.x     Document Type: Article

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