Linking Cluster Characteristics and Organizational Capabilities for Sustainability—Framework Development and Application

Maria Clara da Cunha Bezerra, Cláudia Fabiana Gohr and Sandra Naomi Morioka
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Maria Clara da Cunha Bezerra: Departamento de Engenharia de Produção, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa 58.051-970, Brazil
Cláudia Fabiana Gohr: Departamento de Engenharia de Produção, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa 58.051-970, Brazil
Sandra Naomi Morioka: Departamento de Engenharia de Produção, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa 58.051-970, Brazil

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 3, 1-26

Abstract: Despite previous research in the literature indicating the relationship between corporate sustainability, organizational capabilities and industrial clusters, this interconnection has not yet been satisfactorily explored and requires further investigation. Therefore, this paper proposes a theoretical framework that relates five cluster characteristics (CC) in developing seven Organizational Capabilities for Sustainability (OCS), which are identified in the literature review. To refine the theoretical framework, seven companies were inserted in a Brazilian footwear cluster. Out of the 29 proposed relationships in the theoretical framework, 16 were evidenced and they generated our research propositions. This study primarily expands the literature by providing theoretical and empirical evidence for the role that clusters can have in enabling companies to develop OCS and in turn improve their corporate sustainability.

Keywords: corporate sustainability; organizational capabilities for sustainability; clusters; capabilities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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