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On clusters and industrial districts: A literature review using bibliometrics methods, 2000–2015
Author(s) -
GarcíaLillo Francisco,
ClaverCortés Enrique,
MarcoLajara Bartolomé,
ÚbedaGarcía Mercedes,
SevaLarrosa Pedro
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/pirs.12291
Subject(s) - bibliometrics , citation , regional science , bibliographic coupling , work (physics) , citation analysis , sociology , social science , management science , knowledge management , data science , computer science , library science , economics , engineering , mechanical engineering
The present research work shows the results obtained in an analysis of the existing literature about one of the ‘topics’ which arouses more interest among economists, geographers, theorists of business organization and strategic management or the actual officials in charge of territory arrangement and planning: that of clusters or industrial firm or groupings. More precisely, a total of 1,344 research papers published in different journals in the areas of economy, management, business, planning and development, urban studies and geography during the period 2000 and 2015 were analysed for the purpose of trying to identify and visualize the intellectual structure or knowledge base of the research developed about the aforementioned phenomena. As for the methodology utilized, of a quantitative nature, it is based on the use of bibliometric techniques – in particular, of document co‐citation analysis (DCA) – and of social networks analysis.