Production Chains: Spinal Cord of Mexico’s Industrial Clusters

Christian Enmanuel Laguna Reyes ()
Additional contact information
Christian Enmanuel Laguna Reyes: Profesor de cátedra en el ITESM-CEM y coordinador de la Academia de Economía del Desarrollo Regional en la ESE-IPN.

Economía Mexicana NUEVA ÉPOCA, 2010, vol. XIX, issue 1, 119-170

Abstract: On these current days, the world’s economic map is dominated by clusters or economic groupings, present in almost all geographical levels, which have demonstrated to be critical masses with an unusual success on specific fields. Such clusters are groupings of firms and related institutions that compete, and at the same time cooperate. In this new context of economic activity organization, industrial groupings (clusters) are fundamental, and their performance has become a key factor for cities’, regions’ and nations’ competitive advantages. In this paper, I analyze and implement a methodology that identifies benchmark clusters, useful for applied regional based economic studies. The approach addressed here, applied to the Mexican economy, is based on Feser and Bergman’s methodology, and an extension due to Rey and Mattheis.

Keywords: productive chains; industrial clusters; input-output; Mexico; principal components. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L53 L6 N96 O47 R11 R12 R15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.economiamexicana.cide.edu/num_anteriore ... ReyesEM(119-170).pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:emc:ecomex:v:19:y:2010:i:1:p:119-170

Access Statistics for this article

Economía Mexicana NUEVA ÉPOCA is currently edited by Juan Rosellón

More articles in Economía Mexicana NUEVA ÉPOCA from CIDE, División de Economía Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Ricardo Tiscareño ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).