DO CLUSTER CHARACTERISTICS INFLUENCE EFFECTUAL BEHAVIOUR? – EVIDENCE FROM HIGH-TECH CLUSTERS OF KARNATAKA, INDIA
Abstract
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are significant contributors to employment generation, economic growth and economic dynamics of both developing and developed economies. (Bala Subrahmanya, 2015). Industrial clusters facilitate innovation by promoting the networking of firms and associated institutions located in a specific geographic region and thereby enabling firms to mobilize resources (Chandrashekar & Bala Subrahmanya, 2019). The effectuation process is flexible and takes advantage of environmental opportunities as they arise. In other words, in their highly uncertain environment of creating new ventures, entrepreneurs learn as they go. (Brettel et al., 2014). The objective of this paper is to identify the association between the effectual behaviour attributes like partnership and flexibility to facilitate the antecedents of the entrepreneurs to build a better cluster support system (b) resource orientation and customer orientation within the cluster level facilitates positively to develop geographical orientation and (c) To identify the impact of Antecedents Industry Experience Market – Orientation on the competition. The study involved 64 Firms of two clusters i.e. Hubli-Dharawad Auto-component Cluster and Belgaum Foundry Cluster.
Keyword : High-Tech Clusters, Effectuation, Antecedents, MSMEs.
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