'Making Friends or Making Things?': Interfirm Transactions in the Sheffield Metal-working Cluster

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dc.contributor.authorH.D. Watts
dc.contributor.authorA.M. Wood
dc.contributor.authorP. Wardle
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-14T19:53:40Z
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-30T15:32:05Z
dc.date.available2016-01-14T19:53:40Z
dc.date.available2016-03-30T15:32:05Z
dc.date.issued2003-03-01
dc.description.abstractThe paper comprises an examination of the material inputs of a sample of 70 small firms in the Sheffield metal-working cluster and an assessment of the extent to which purchases are accompanied by face-to-face (embodied) transactions. It is shown that there are no significant differences between the level of embodied transactions accompanying local (intra-cluster) material links and those associated with non-local flows. It seems that, on this measure at least and within this cluster, the Sheffield metal-working cluster lacks the dense network of embodied transactions with local suppliers suggested in the wider literature. The lower-than-expected measures of embodied transactions suggest that one of the mechanisms for the transfer of knowledge between buyers and suppliers within an industrial cluster is poorly developed in this particular case.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewnoteshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guidelinesen_US
dc.identifier.citationWatts, H. D., Wood, A. M., & Wardle, P. (2003). 'Making Friends or Making Things?': Interfirm Transactions in the Sheffield Metal-working Cluster. Urban Studies, 40(3), 615-630. doi: 10.1080/0042098032000053950en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/0042098032000053950en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11244/25382
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUrban Studies
dc.rights.requestablefalseen_US
dc.title'Making Friends or Making Things?': Interfirm Transactions in the Sheffield Metal-working Clusteren_US
dc.typeResearch Articleen_US

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