Structure and evolution of global cluster networks: evidence from the aerospace industry

Ekaterina Turkina, Ari Van Assche and Raja Kali

Journal of Economic Geography, 2016, vol. 16, issue 6, 1211-1234

Abstract: We use a new panel dataset to study the network of formal firm linkages within and across 52 aerospace clusters in North America and Europe. Our theoretical framework, built upon the knowledge-based cluster and global value chains literature, suggests that a reduction in spatial transaction costs has induced clusters to specialize in increasingly fine-grained value chain stages. This should cause the overall network to evolve from a geographically localized structure to a trans-local hierarchical structure that is stratified along value chain stages. Applying community structure detection techniques and organizing sub-networks by linkage type, we find empirical evidence in support of this proposition.

Keywords: Industrial clusters; networks; community structure; aerospace (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 F61 L14 L62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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