Analysis On The Industrial Cluster-from The View Of Institutional Economics

Industrial clusters are geographic concentrations of interconnected companies and institutions which belong to a specific industrial domain. They have the characters of commonness and complementarity. In the clusters, there are trade or non- trade interdependence between the enterprise, for example having input-output relationship, or sharing labor force and other resources, thus obtains the external economy benefit. In the ideal industrial clusters, there is coordination effect and collective efficiency, which promote study and the technical innovation.The traditional and representative industrial cluster theories include Marshall's External Economy Theory, Krugman's Scale Reward Theory, and Porter's Diamond Model Theory, etc. The theories above are some conclusions drawn from experiential analysis, focusing on saving production cost. In this thesis, industrial cluster is regarded as a kind of intermediate organization situated between the market and enterprise. And also, it is a kind of colony formed by spontaneity and collective choice under the external environment. It has the law of the superior winning and the inferior washing out, has the rule of evolving from junior to senior, has the intrinsic dynamical mechanism of auto-organizing, auto-adapted and harmonious evolution , and has the spiral rise mechanism of"competition-study-innovation". Industrial cluster belongs to a kind of appropriate institutional arrangement. Naturally, studying this kind of institutional arrangement means developing industrial cluster theory. Just as Masahiko Aoki said when he studied Silicon Valley Pattern,"We have the necessity to regard the Silicon Valley phenomenon from a more widespread viewpoint, to study it as an analysis unit, as an intrinsic consistent system. Through that, we can understand the Silicon Valley phenomenon in theory of institutional innovation about product system development territory"(Masahiko Aoki, 2004) .This thesis attempts to establish an institutional analysis frame about the industrial cluster's origin, function and performance through studying the gather theory and the institutional economics theory with some cases about Zhujiang delta and Yangtse River delta. In virtue of New-institutional Economics model, the thesis tries to analyze the companies' motivation, the institutional safeguard to dividing the work and cooperation as...