Clusters and Sustainable Regional Development

Table of Contents:

Part 1: The theoretical foundations of clusters as meta-organisations




Chapter 1: Clusters as Collective Actors and Agents of Change for New Sustainable Path Development



Chapter 2: Meta-Organisation as a Partial Organisation: An Integrated Framework of Organisationality and Decisionality



Chapter 3: What governance for regional innovation clusters? Meta-organisational analysis of the German innovation cluster 'Physics for Food'



Chapter 4: Meta-Organising Clusters as Agents of Transformative Change through 'Responsible Actorhood'


Part 2: Internal Dynamics of Clusters as Meta-Organisations


Chapter 5: From a Wasteland to a Creative Community: The Significance of Meta-Organising for Cluster Policy



Chapter 6: Managing Sustainability Issues of a Territory through Multi-Stakeholder Meta-Organisations



Chapter 7: Are North American Clusters Transitioning to Clean Technologies?



Chapter 8: Clean Technology Clusters: Meta-Organising Firms for Sustainability


Part 3: Meta-Organisations in Broader Context


Chapter 9: The Roles of Meta-Organisations in Transitions: Analysing the Food Packaging Cluster in Finland



Chapter 10: Meta-Organisations as Drivers for Sustainability across Tourism Clusters in the Alps: A Case Study of 'Alpine Pearls'



Chapter 11: Urban Super-Cluster as a Novel Approach to Clustering in Megapolises: The Case of Moscow Innovation Cluster



Chapter 12: Meta-Organisations and Clusters in Climate Regimes





Part 4: Conclusions


Chapter 13: Conclusions