Perceived Social Capital and Institutional Environment‘s Impact On the Success of Regional Cluster Policies

• Authors: Tomasz Kwiatkowski , Grzegorz Micek , Mariusz Łapczyński

Abstracts

EN

Cluster policies (CPs) are said to be one of the crucial elements supporting the innovativeness of local and regional economies. However, what drives the success of CPs has not been made fully explicit. We tested the impact of perceived quality and strength of social capital (SC) and the formal institutional environment (FIE) upon CPs. We studied this relationship by applying structural equation modelling to data from quantitative CATI research on members of 20cluster initiatives from four Polish administrative regions (NUTS 2), referred to as voivodships. We have revealed that the formal institutional environment has a strong influence on CPs, whereas, surprisingly, SC hardly matters.

Keywords

EN

social capital (SC); formal institutional environment (FIE); cluster policies (CPs); entrepreneurs’ perception; structural equation modelling (SEM)

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania
• Journal: Central European Economic Journal
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 57
• Pages: 198-218

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Tomasz Kwiatkowski

• Jagiellonian University

• https://orcid.org/0000000317718425

author

Grzegorz Micek

• Jagiellonian University

• https://orcid.org/0000000195529326

author

Mariusz Łapczyński

• Cracow University of Economics

• https://orcid.org/0000000245087264

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