Transportation and Coordination in Clusters

Leif Gjesing Hansen

International Studies of Management & Organization, 2001, vol. 31, issue 4, 73-88

Abstract: This article describes the role of transportation for industrial clusters. It analyzes the interdependence between production systems (transportation demand) and transportation systems, and argues that for some clusters consisting of small and medium-sized enterprises, transportation plays a crucial role in coordinating the activities and capabilities of firms, thus underpinning external economies. Hence, instead of viewing transportation as a generic infrastructure underlying industrial organization within such clusters, we should treat transportation as a specific and collective resource—a capability—constituting an integrated part of competitive advantage for this type of industrial clusters. The paper illustrates its point with an empirical case study of the Danish Salling furniture cluster.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656828

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