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We Used to Get and Give a Lot of Help: Networking, Cooperation and Knowledge Flow in the H unter V alley Wine Cluster
Author(s) -
McIntyre Julie,
Mitchell Rebecca,
Boyle Brendan,
Ryan Shaun
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
australian economic history review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.493
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1467-8446
pISSN - 0004-8992
DOI - 10.1111/aehr.12022
Subject(s) - wine , alley , knowledge flow , cluster (spacecraft) , flow (mathematics) , advertising , marketing , computer science , business , mathematics , geography , chemistry , knowledge management , food science , archaeology , computer network , geometry
The H unter V alley, N ew S outh W ales, is both A ustralia's oldest continually producing wine region and a highly functioning wine business cluster. New generation cluster actors perceive that the region's concentration of historic family‐based firms has contributed to its strength. We have used rarely consulted and newly accessioned evidence from the 1820s to the 1920s to qualitatively test the extent to which early networking created pathways for knowledge flow in the region. Our cross‐disciplinary research into the historic depth of embedded cooperation reveals a little known feature of early A ustralian business history and complements the more commonplace breadth approach in cluster studies.