The Present State of Research into Industrial Clusters and Districts. Content Analysis of Material Published in 1997--2006

Mª Teresa Martínez-Fernández, Josep Capó-Vicedo and Teresa Vallet-Bellmunt

European Planning Studies, 2010, vol. 20, issue 2, 281-304

Abstract: The aim of this work is to help gain a better understanding of the research conducted on territorial agglomerations of firms at a multidisciplinary level. To this end, an analysis was performed of the contents of the most significant scientific literature on economics, management, planning and development, urban studies and geography published over the period 1997--2006. From the results, a database of 142 papers from 43 journals was then elaborated. An analysis of these works reveals the level of development of the main lines of research in this field and, consequently, makes it possible to detect the topics that require greater attention and that can be the object of future research for researchers and academics. The main conclusions include the growing number of studies conducted on the subject in recent years, as well as a greater predominance of empirical research over conceptual work, and the existence of a significant change in the topics or lines of research throughout the period under study.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2012.650906

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