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Cluster and business performance: Historical evidence from the Portuguese cork industry
| dc.contributor.author | Branco, Amélia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lopes, João Carlos | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-04-10T14:09:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-04-10T14:09:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper analyses the relative performance of clustered and non-clustered companies during the different phases of the cluster life cycle. It starts by explaining the location of most of the Portuguese cork manufacturing companies in Santa Maria da Feira, a small county in the north of the country, whereas the bulk of cork is produced in the South. The historical roots of the Feira cluster are examined, as well as the identification of its life cycle phases. The performance of clustered and non-clustered companies is compared using labour productivity data over a long time span of several decades. This exercise illustrates the crucial importance of history for the understanding of cluster dynamics, as well as many other (evolutionary) economic phenomena. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.abstract | “Clúster y desempeño de las empresas: evidencia historica de la industria portuguesa del corcho”: Resumen - Este artículo analiza el comportamiento relativo de las empresas aglomeradas y no aglomeradas durante las diferentes fases del ciclo de vida del clúster. Comienza explicando la localización de la mayoría de las empresas corcheras manufactureras portuguesas en Santa Maria da Feira, una pequeña localidad del norte del país, mientras que el grueso del corcho se produce en el sur. Se examinan las raíces históricas del clúster de Feira, así como la identificación de las fases de su ciclo de vida. También se compara el desempeño de las empresas aglomeradas y no aglomeradas usando datos de productividad laboral durante un largo período de tiempo de varias décadas. Este ejercicio ilustra la importancia crucial de la historia para la comprensión de la dinámica de los clusters, así como de muchos otros fenómenos económicos evolutivos. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.citation | Branco, Amélia, and João Carlos Lopes. (2018). "Cluster and business performance: Historical evidence from the Portuguese cork industry." Investigaciones de historia económica, Vol. 14.No. 1: pp. 43-53. | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | doi.org/10.1016/j.ihe.2016.05.002 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1698-6989 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/100134 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Cork Industry | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Cluster Life Cycle | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Industrial Location | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Portugal | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Industria corchera | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Ciclo de vida del cluster | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Localización industrial | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Portugal | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Cluster and business performance: Historical evidence from the Portuguese cork industry | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |