Cluster Policy in the Light of Institutional Context—A Comparative Study of Transition Countries
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Constructing a Research Framework
2.1. The Institutional Environment and Its Voids
2.2. Cluster Policy
2.3. Research Framework Cluster Policy and Institutional Voids
3. Case Studies
3.1. Methodological Approach
3.2. Serbia
3.2.1. Formal and Informal Institutional Context
Formal Institutional Environment
Informal Institutional Environment
“I heard from many people that you need to have special relationships, [...] to get proper information.”[67]
3.2.2. Serbian Cluster Policy Targeting Institutional Voids
“There is one, not formally defined, service: providing information, different consultations. I can ask to the cluster manager to provide me information from our government or governmental institutions or maybe he is linked to other IT companies. So if we need to establish contact with someone to get some information it’s good channel to use cluster.”[67]
“So what we are trying to do is, on one hand we are doing campaigns and popularisation of IT-professionals because we believe that—and it’s definitely true—we have too many economists, doctors and lawyers in this country. Also, we have established our own cluster academy where we want to create (.) to try to bridge the gap between the times that our IT-preposition will results in few years”[70].
3.3. Tunisia
3.3.1. Formal and Informal Institutional Context
Formal Institutional Environment
Informal Institution and the “Arab Social Contract”
3.3.2. Tunisian Cluster Policy Targeting Institutional Voids
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Chicago/Turabian StyleLehmann, Tine, and Maximilian Benner. 2015. "Cluster Policy in the Light of Institutional Context—A Comparative Study of Transition Countries" Administrative Sciences 5, no. 4: 188-212. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci5040188