ABSTRACT

In this article we investigate how status considerations influence inter-firm knowledge transfer in industrial clusters. Using evidence of a highly dynamic wine cluster and network analysis methods of Stochastic Actor-Oriented Modelling, we find that status considerations drive assortative matching in the formation of ties within a cluster. This means that low-status firms are cast from the ‘circles that count’, while high-status firms are likely to interact with similar others. Far from being an equal space of knowledge sharing, some clusters may instead be spaces of social hierarchies and elitist ties.

中文翻译：

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被精英抛弃：地位如何影响产业集群的分类匹配

摘要

在本文中，我们研究了地位考虑如何影响产业集群中的公司间知识转移。使用高度动态的葡萄酒集群的证据和随机面向参与者的建模的网络分析方法，我们发现状态考虑推动了集群内关系形成过程中的分类匹配。这意味着地位低的公司是从“重要的圈子”中剔除的，而地位高的公司可能会与类似的其他公司互动。远非知识共享的平等空间，一些集群可能反而是社会等级和精英关系的空间。