Knowledge flows through informal contacts in industrial clusters: myth or reality?

By Michael S. Dahl, Christian Ø. R. Pedersen. 2004

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Media Technology, Strategy and Management

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Do clusters capabilities matter? An empirical application of the resource-based view in clusters (2007, background): “Dahl and Pedersen (2004) empirically show that knowledge flows through informal contacts in clusters which enhance the cluster’s absorptive capability (Zahra and George 2002).”
The effect of intra- and inter-regional labour mobility on plant performance in Denmark: the significance of related labour inflows (2014, background): “Since most of the job moves are intra-regional, these social networks are formed locally, and will enhance further knowledge accumulation at the regional level (Dahl and Pedersen, 2003).”
Selective revealing in open innovation processes: the case of embedded Linux (gekürzte Version) (2006, background): “This phenomenon of “information trading” has been analyzed, among others, by von Hippel (1987) and Schrader (1991) and more recently by Dahl and Pedersen (2004).”
How does labour mobility affect the performance of plants? The importance of relatedness and geographical proximity (2008, background): “Since most of the job moves are intra-regional, these social networks are formed locally, and will enhance further knowledge accumulation at the regional level (Dahl and Pedersen, 2003) ii .”
Subsidy and networking: The effects of direct and indirect support programs of the cluster policy (2011, background): “[7]; Audretsch and Lehmann [8]; Dahl and Pedersen [9]; Fritsch and Franke [10]; Furman et al.”
Impact of public and private research funding on scientific production: The case of nanotechnology (2012, background): “Lamoreaux and Sokoloff (1997), Dahl and Pedersen (2004), von Hippel (1987) and Schrader (1991) provide various examples of collective invention.”
Network Characteristics and Firm Performance: An Examination of the Relationships in the Context of a Cluster** (2013, unknown): “Engineers with more experience are better at, and are also more likely to acquire useful knowledge from their contacts (Dahl and Pedersen 2004).”
Cooperation patterns of incubator firms and the impact of incubator specialization: Empirical evidence from Germany (2010, background): “, regarding funding, support programmes and market structures) or to combine complementary resources (Von Hippel, 1987; Pyka, 1997; Dahl and Pedersen, 2004).”
Formal and informal interorganizational learning within strategic alliances (2008, background): “This therefore encompasses the intrinsically motivated knowledge sharing of the collaborating partners’ employees as well as the sharing of knowledge about their common practice, resulting from the informal social contacts that they initiate outside of the requirements of the collaborative tasks (Da”
From anxiety to assurance: concerns and outcomes of telework (2012, background): “Indeed, social interactions with other colleagues provide an important base for professional development (Dahl and Pedersen, 2004; Lal and Dwivedi, 2009), greater productivity (Neufeld and Fang, 2005), and for job satisfaction (Golden, 2006; Golden and Veiga, 2008).”
Knowledge and Information Networks in an Italian Wine Cluster (2009, background): “The above considerations suggest that the literature hype about the importance of clustering for knowledge diffusion has contributed to the creation of a myth (Dahl & Pedersen, 2004 ).”
(How) Do (Firms in) Clusters Create Knowledge? (2005, background): “Dahl and Peterson's studies of the mobility of engineers in Denmark confirm that inter‐firm mobility is higher within two defined knowledge clusters (wireless telecommunications in northern Jutland and medicine/biotech in Copenhagen) than in the rest of the economy (Dahl, 2002 ; Dahl and Pedersen, ”
The Dynamics of Technical and Business Knowledge Networks in Industrial Clusters: Embeddedness, Status, or Proximity? (2016, unknown): “All the above findings on proximity in technical knowledge networks are in line with the conventional accounts of knowledge diffusion in clusters via informal contacts (Dahl and Pedersen 2004).”