Influence of culture and governance structure on leadership behaviour of cluster managers and implications for cluster management effectiveness

Carola Jungwirth and Susanne Ruckdäschel

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2013, vol. 18, issue 4, 470-492

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to investigate leadership behaviour, its effectiveness, and certain influence factors on leadership behaviour in regional clusters that are led by a specifically created cluster management. Using a sequential mixed methods design, i.e., the combination of qualitative and quantitative research with the same sample, we analyse leadership behaviour of 85 cluster managers from the USA, England, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. Leadership behaviour is classified according to three categories, namely empowering, mobilising, and embracing. Generally, empowering seems to have the most important influence on the effectiveness of the cluster management due to an increase in the number of member companies and a higher member satisfaction. The influence of culture and governance structure on leadership behaviour is depicted. Results show that there are differences in leadership behaviours of cluster managers in the Anglo-American and the Germanic European culture but not according to different governance modes.

Keywords: leadership behaviour; cluster management; effectiveness; regional clusters; regional networks; mixed methods; culture; internationalisation; governance structure; cluster managers; USA; United States; UK; United Kingdom; Germany; Switzerland; Austria; empowering; mobilising; embracing. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=53482 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

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:ids:ijesbu:v:18:y:2013:i:4:p:470-492

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sarah Parker ().