Purpose: This paper aims to evaluate whether the integration of smart specialization strategies (S3) into clusters significantly impacts their efficiency for countries that still do not implement this policy. This study tests three effects: whether the kind of policies envisaged through an S3...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate labor congestion in the automotive industry in Mexico. Design/methodology/approach: By using the cluster and subcluster definitions by Delgado et al. (2016) and relying on an efficiency and production function perspective, this study...