Theory And Case Studies Of The Evolution Of Industrial Clusters

The development of industrial clusters has become the crucial factor of the quickeconomic growth for many countries and regions all over the world, which makes itthe research object of many subjects in the recent years. However, there is not acomplete theory that explains the evolution of industrial clusters. The present thesistries to put forward a new theoretic frame to explain the general evolutional law ofindustrial clusters.The present paper will make a deep research on industrial clusters evolution fromthe theories of specialization, value chain, self-organization, organizational inertia andmodularization.At the first, putting the professional specialization to be the logic starting, Thepaper is based on the concept of the professional specialization, and combines themodel analysis with the theoretic analysis to study the relations between the evolutionof industrial clusters and the professional specialization, and thinks the professionalspecialization is the economic foundation of industrial clusters evolution.Secondly, the present thesis uses the self-organization theory to analyze inherentdriving mechanism of the industrial clusters evolution, and points out that theself-organization mechanism is very important in the process of the professionalspecialization and industrial clusters evolution, and thinks the professionalspecialization and industrial clusters evolution contain the self-organization behavior.Thirdly, this paper makes a deep analysis for the relation between the value chainand the evolution of industrial clusters. To begin with the evolution of the productvalue chain, the paper makes research for the forming mechanism of the social valuechain, industrial chain and industrial value chain, and global value chain, and theeffects the mechanism produces on the evolution of industrial clusters.Fourthly, this paper analyzes the characters of the organizational inertia and theinfluences the organizational inertia produces on the industrial clusters evolution, andthinks the organizational inertia theory as the general common theory of the industrialclusters evolution, and the organizational inertia is the certain, impersonal drivepower of the self-organization evolution of industrial clusters. Especialy, there will bebetter effects if it is used to explain the withering of industrial clusters.Finally, based on the previous analyses, the paper uses the modularization theoryto discusses the industrial clusters evolution, and analyzes the modularizationcharacters and laws of industrial clusters evolution with the game theory, and thinksmodularization clusters are the inevitable results and higher phases of the evolution ofthe professional specialization, value chain and self-organization.