Research on driving-forces of industrial cluster formation from the perspective of population competition and interdependence

Population Ecology provides a new way of thinking on the theory of industrial clusters. By comparing ecosystems and industrial clusters, the ecological property and behavioral characteristics of industrial clusters are revealed. The generally formative process of industrial clustering is described from the perspectives of population competition and interdependence, and the driving-forces of industrial clustering formation are analyzed and identified in terms of internal conditions and the external environment on the basis of an expansive model of the Logistic equation. A case of Sinos Valley of Brazil is given to show the process of the formation of industrial cluster from the Perspective of Population Competition and Interdependence.

[1]  G. Carroll,et al.  Structural Inertia and Organizational Change Revisited I: Architecture, Culture and Cascading Change , 2002 .

[2]  Glenn R. Carroll,et al.  Organizational evolution in a multinational context: entries of automobile manufacturers in Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy , 1995 .

[3]  M. Hannan,et al.  The Population Ecology of Organizations , 1977, American Journal of Sociology.

[4]  A. O. Nicholls,et al.  Measurement of the realized qualitative niche: environmental niches of five Eucalyptus species , 1990 .

[5]  P. Geroski,et al.  Modelling the Dynamics of Industry Populations , 2000 .

[6]  Richard L. Daft,et al.  Essentials of Organization Theory and Design , 2000 .

[7]  M. Tushman,et al.  Technological Discontinuities and Organizational Environments , 1986 .

[8]  J. Pfeffer,et al.  Environments of Organizations , 1976 .

[9]  L. Greiner.  Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow , 1997 .

[10]  Ken Baskin.  Corporate DNA: Learning from Life , 1998 .

[11]  J. Grinnell.  Geography and Evolution , 1924 .

[12]  Michael T. Hannan,et al.  Inertia, Density and the Structure of Organizational Populations: Entries in European Automobile Industries, 1886-1981 , 1997 .

[13]  A. Marshall.  Principles of Economics , .

[14]  Mario A. Maggioni,et al.  Regional Development Strategies in Changing Environments: An Ecological Approach , 1998 .

[15]  M. Hannan,et al.  Structural Inertia and Organizational Change , 1984 .

[16]  M. Porter.  Clusters and the new economics of competition. , 1998, Harvard business review.

[17]  Glenn R. Carroll,et al.  Legitimation, Geographical Scale, and Organizational Density: Regional Patterns of Foundings of American Automobile Producers, 1885–1981 , 1997 .

[18]  D. Wholey,et al.  The effects of regulatory tools on organizational populations. , 1991, Academy of management review. Academy of Management.