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Firm‐specific cluster effects: A meta‐analysis
Author(s) -
Grashof Nils
Publication year - 2020
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.12526
Subject(s) - meta analysis , context (archaeology) , sample (material) , cluster (spacecraft) , econometrics , empirical research , statistical analysis , sample size determination , psychology , statistics , economics , computer science , mathematics , geography , medicine , chemistry , archaeology , chromatography , programming language
The aim of this paper is to investigate the alleged effect of clusters on firm performance and the moderating influence of the specific context by conducting a meta‐analysis of the relevant empirical literature. Therefore four different performance variables from four separate publication databases are considered. The final sample of the meta‐analysis consists of 168 empirical studies. The statistical integration of the corresponding results of these empirical studies indicates that there exists relatively weak evidence for a pure firm‐specific cluster effect. Instead, it can be asserted that several variables from different levels of analysis directly or interactively moderate the relationship between clusters and firm's success.