Influence area as competitiveness’ indicator for retail clusters

Organizations are facing increasingly competitive environments and, in this sense, are adopting, among other strategies, more cooperative approaches based on collective operation perspectives. Commercial business concentrations offering related products to end consumers, treated in this paper as ret...

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Autores: Telles, Renato, Augusto Minciotti, Silvio, Ferreira, Gabriel, Maria de Oliveira Licorio, Angelina, Yoshihiro Hamji, Edison
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Municipal de São Caetano do Sul (USCS)
Repositorio:Revista Gestão & Regionalidade (Online)
Idioma:portugués
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OAI Identifier:oai:ojs2.seer.uscs.edu.br:article/8418
Acceso en línea:https://seer.uscs.edu.br/index.php/revista_gestao/article/view/8418
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Commercial concentrations
Retail Clusters
Business Network
Influence area
competitiveness
Concentrações comerciais
Clusters Varejistas
Redes de Negócios
Área de influência
Competitividade
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Sumario:Organizations are facing increasingly competitive environments and, in this sense, are adopting, among other strategies, more cooperative approaches based on collective operation perspectives. Commercial business concentrations offering related products to end consumers, treated in this paper as retail clusters, are a generally successful example of this stance type. In this context, this study aims to investigate this phenomenon, focusing on the ownership of the influence area concept as a consistent and relevant indicator in the assessment of the retail cluster's competitiveness. We have opted to investigate pub clusters for the field study. Based on the literature review, we sought to raise the theoretical foundation and empirical evidence to support the hypothesis of significant association between competitiveness and influence area for retail clusters. The results show consistent indications of the relationship between competitiveness and secondary and tertiary influence areas of retail clusters, offering an innovative contribution in the assessment of retail clusters' competitiveness, as well as the feasibility for using the influence area as a relevant marker to clusters management.