Regional, national and international networks: the suitability of different competitive strategies for different geographic profiles

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Autor(a) principal: Cesário, M.
Data de Publicação: 2014
Outros Autores: Noronha, Teresa de
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/4845
Resumo: The aim of this paper is to conduct an exploratory investigation on the type of competitive strategies that are likely to be associated with different networking profiles. We focus our attention on response strategies related to investments and technological adjustments, and how they vary according to different spatial scales of firms' networks. We report the results of the application of a common questionnaire to a sample of 165 SMEs from labour-intensive sectors belonging to southern Europe. Using cluster analysis, the firms were grouped according to the use of regional, national and international geographic scales for supply, distribution and sales networks. For each group, response strategies were analysed. Our results allow us to observe that there is a relation between the capacity to improve the geographic scale of networking and the capacity to strategically react to changing market conditions.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Regional, national and international networks: the suitability of different competitive strategies for different geographic profiles
title Regional, national and international networks: the suitability of different competitive strategies for different geographic profiles
spellingShingle Regional, national and international networks: the suitability of different competitive strategies for different geographic profiles
Cesário, M.
Networking profiles
Geographic scales
Competitive strategies
Manufacturing
Small business
title_short Regional, national and international networks: the suitability of different competitive strategies for different geographic profiles
title_full Regional, national and international networks: the suitability of different competitive strategies for different geographic profiles
title_fullStr Regional, national and international networks: the suitability of different competitive strategies for different geographic profiles
title_full_unstemmed Regional, national and international networks: the suitability of different competitive strategies for different geographic profiles
title_sort Regional, national and international networks: the suitability of different competitive strategies for different geographic profiles
author Cesário, M.
author_facet Cesário, M.
Noronha, Teresa de
author_role author
author2 Noronha, Teresa de
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Sapientia
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Cesário, M.
Noronha, Teresa de
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Networking profiles
Geographic scales
Competitive strategies
Manufacturing
Small business
topic Networking profiles
Geographic scales
Competitive strategies
Manufacturing
Small business
description The aim of this paper is to conduct an exploratory investigation on the type of competitive strategies that are likely to be associated with different networking profiles. We focus our attention on response strategies related to investments and technological adjustments, and how they vary according to different spatial scales of firms' networks. We report the results of the application of a common questionnaire to a sample of 165 SMEs from labour-intensive sectors belonging to southern Europe. Using cluster analysis, the firms were grouped according to the use of regional, national and international geographic scales for supply, distribution and sales networks. For each group, response strategies were analysed. Our results allow us to observe that there is a relation between the capacity to improve the geographic scale of networking and the capacity to strategically react to changing market conditions.
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