The aim of this article is to measure the effect of shared resources on individual firm performance. Using the Industrial District as a definition of the interorganizational context, the authors propose a model that includes a set of factors that are associated with the endowment of external...

Industrial districts are made up of enterprises and organisations that are closely related, both physically and cognitively. From the social capital perspective, the district has been defined as a social network with a high degree of internal homogeneity. Nevertheless, good reasons can be found...

Firms aspire to take advantage of technical and business networks through inter-organizational interactions to improve performance. Consequently, researchers are increasingly focusing on the dynamics and implications of network formation at both local and global levels. The recent research trend...

This paper proposes a theoretical integration of social capital and territorial perspectives for the study of industrial districts. Industrial districts ben-efit from fine-grained information and tacit knowledge exchanges and from norms and values that promote cooperation. These characteristics...