Purpose – This study aims to focus on how companies operating in international food commodity markets can improve their long-term competitiveness and profitability upon financial pressure. Management can choose between generic strategies of either cost leadership or enhanced value adding by...

Governmental policies tend to support and boost entrepreneurship in peripheral regions in many countries. This research revives the debate about specific regional policies designed to foster local new business creation, and the entrepreneurial framework conditions needed at the regional level...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to is focus on the role of geographic co‐location in the development of firm‐level marketing externalities. Design/methodology/approach – A mail survey and quantitative analysis were used to examine the effect of co‐location on externalities. Fast...

Purpose – This paper aims to focus on the perceived role of clusters in inter‐firm cooperation and social networks. Design/methodology/approach – The study was carried out in a region of Latin America where limited research has been conducted in terms of inter‐firm relationships....

Purpose – To investigate the influence of national or sub‐national culture and company size on inter‐firm cooperation in marketing among cluster‐based firms, with specific respect to the salmon‐farming industry. Design/methodology/approach – Case study analysis of data collected from...

Governmental policies tend to support and boost entrepreneurship in peripheral regions in many countries. This research revives the debate about specific regional policies designed to foster local new business creation, and the entrepreneurial framework conditions needed at the regional level...

The present paper deals with the perceptions about market conditions and public policies related to enhance entrepreneurial activities at regional levels. This is the first academic research at regional level in Chile and one of the few in Latin America to study this issue. The main results seem...

Governmental policies tend to support and boost entrepreneurship in peripheral regions in many countries. This research revives the debate about specific regional policies designed to foster local new business creation, and the entrepreneurial framework conditions needed at regional level for...