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1、OrganizationScienceinforms?Vol.16,No.4,July–August2005,pp.344–358doi10.1287/orsc.1050.0131issn1047-7039eissn1526-54550516040344?2005INFORMSRegionalIndustrialIdentity:ClusterCon?gurationsandEconomicDevelopmentElaineRomanelli,OlgaM.KhessinaMcDonoughSchoolofBusiness,GeorgetownUniversity,G04Ol
2、dNorth,Washington,DC20057{romanele@georgetown.edu,omk2@georgetown.edu}Weexploretheconceptofregionalindustrialidentityasanimportantmissingcomponentinourunderstandingofthedevelopmentofmetropolitanregionsandthespatialarrangementsofindustries.Whileeconomistsandsociologistshaveexplainedthelocationo
3、findustryclustersonthebasisofunevenlydistributedresources,andhistorianshaveprovidedrichdescriptiveinsightintothedevelopmentaldynamicsofparticularmetropolitanregions,littlesystematictheoryhasbeenadvancedtoexplaincross-regionalin?owsandout?owsofresources,especiallywithrespecttopatternsinclusterd
4、evelopment.Thispaperexaminestheconceptofregionalindustrialidentityasasocialcodethat(1)arisesfromthesharedunderstandingsofresidentsandexternalaudiencesaboutthesuitabilityofaregionforparticularkindsofbusinessactivityand(2)in?uencesdecisionsaboutwheretolocateinvestments.Wearguethatsuchunderstandi
5、ngsareprincipallyinformedbycon?gurationsofindustryclustersthathavealreadyformedinaregion.Clusters,whicharetheresultsofhistoricalinvestments,arealsoimportantsignalsaboutthetypesofbusinessthatcanthriveinthefuture.Wedeveloptheoreticalpropositionslinkingcharacteristicsofregionalindustryclustercon?
6、gurations,inparticularclusterdominanceandclusterinterrelatedness,tothestrengthandfocusofregionalidentityand,asaresult,tothetypesandamountsofresourcesthatwilldevelopwithinand?owintoandoutofregions.Keywords:regionaleconomicdevelopment;industryclusters;regionalindustrialidentityWhyindustrycluster
7、slocateinparticularregionsisaneitherasthinlycharacterizedbackdropsforthestudyimportantbutunevenlyansweredquestioninorganiza-ofotherphenomenaorthicklydescribedinawaythattiontheory.Mosttheoristshavearguedthatclustersariselimitscross-regio
