Browsing HBS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "industry clusters"

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    • Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes 

      Kerr, William Robert; Kominers, Scott Duke (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2014-10-28)
      We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction ...

    • Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines 

      Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William Robert (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2014-05-13)
      Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils ...

    • High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration 

      Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William Robert; Özden, Çağlar; Parsons, Christopher (Annual Reviews, 2017-04-04)
      This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration ...

    • The Rise and Fall of Small Worlds: Exploring the Dynamics of Social Structure 

      Gulati, Ranjay; Sytch, Maxim; Tatarynowicz, Adam (INFORMS, 2012)
      This paper explores the interplay between social structure and economic action by examining some of the evolutionary dynamics of an emergent network that coalesces into a small-world system. The study highlights the ...