Open AccessEfeitos da entrada da IKEA num cluster de produção de móveis
Author(s) -
Vasco Eiriz,
Diana Carvalho
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
revista produção e desenvolvimento
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2446-9580
DOI - 10.32358/rpd.2016.v2.127
Subject(s) - multinational corporation , internationalization , cluster (spacecraft) , economies of agglomeration , business , sample (material) , economic geography , business administration , industrial organization , production (economics) , marketing , international trade , economics , economic growth , chemistry , finance , chromatography , computer science , macroeconomics , programming language
The entry of a multinational into a cluster, a geographic agglomeration in a given place or region of predominantly small and medium enterprises specialized in a given industry or related industries, impacts the incumbent in the cluster. Aiming to identify the main effects of a multinational entry on the firms’ strategy in a cluster, it was analyzed the entry of IKEA, a Swedish multinational, into the cluster of furniture production in Paços de Ferreira and Paredes, in Portugal. In this study, the data collection technique to access primary data was a survey. The sample has small enterprises, which is similar to the structure of firms in the studied cluster. Results show that more than half the sample thinks that the entry of the multinational had not affected them. However, the firms that acknowledge a significant impact, assess that impact as negative. The competitiveness factors that have improved more significantly after IKEA’s entry were new product development and exporting strategies. The main responses of incumbent firms to the multinational entry were internationalization and the development of generic strategies of differentiation and focus based on differentiation.