On The Governance Of Industrial Cluster: A Corporte Social Respersibility Perspective

Under the background of economic globalization and localization, the industrial cluster, which wildly exists all over the world comes into our version and emerges as a hot topic. Industrial cluster has been playing a more and more important role in economic development and has already become the engine promoting regional competence and source of regional creation. Along with the economic development, as the main entity of industrial cluster, firm's behavior has greater impact on regional economic progress. Taking more social responsibility by firms has been required by ordinary people. Particularly, the process of economic globalization has brought great challenge for local industrial clusters in developing countries to embedded into global value chain and international division of labor system.On the other hand , there still exist many problems in the development of industrial cluster. Firstly, as to the internal network structure of industrial cluster, path dependence has caused structured risk, weak embeddedness and creativity. Secondly, as to industrial cluster embeddeding the global value chain, many industrial clusters were locked-in linkages of low levels and the functional upgrading was hindered. To establish and keep industrial cluster's competitive advantage, active measures should be taken to deal with the problems existing in the governance of industrial cluster. My work claims that governing the industrial cluster from the corporate social responsibility perspective is operable and meaningful in practice.As a multi-disciplinary work, this paper, based on regional economics, industrial economics, economic geography, new institutional economics, new socio-economics, taking theories as network organization, value chain and shareholder as tools, deeply analyzes the governance of industrial cluster and constructs a theoretical framework which integrates the governances of network organization, global value chain and local value chain as an entity. My work would be a supplementary and meaningful attempt as to the segmentation of current studies. In this paper, the internal correlation between corporate social responsibility and the governance of network organization is discussed firstly from aspects as the reversion of network risk, weak embeddedness of industrial cluster and internal creation of cluster. Then, the internal correlation between corporate social responsibility and the governance of global value chain is analyzed from the aspects as embeddeding into global value chain, breaking through the lock-in from path dependence and upgrading of local industrial cluster. Therefore, this paper firstly proposes the governance of local value chain of industrial cluster and discusses the internal correlation between corporate social responsibility and the governance of local value chain. Finally, taking industrial cluster of hardware in Yongkang, Zhejiang province as an instance, this paper analyzes the governance of industrial cluster from the corporate social responsibility perspective.