Dentro de la serie de Seminarios de Investigación que organiza el Grupo de Investigación PYMED, tendremos la ocasión de recibir al assistant professor de la Anadolu University (Faculty of Business), Dr. Gökhan Önder.
El seminario versará sobre el tema: «Innovation and the network position of firms: the case of the EBK ceramic cluster in Turkey»
Se celebrará el próximo miércoles 1 de diciembre a las 12.30h en el Seminario Joaquín Guzmán del Departamento Economía Aplicada I (3ª planta de la Facultad de CC. Económicas y Empresariales), y será impartido en inglés. El seminario será presencial, aunque con retransmisión virtual simultánea.
Abstract:
Since the 1990s, clusters, which are business systems created by firms concentrated in a particular geographical area, have attracted the attention of researchers from different fields. This study aims to explore the network structure of the Eskişehir– Bilecik–Kütahya (EBK) ceramic product cluster, which accounts for nearly 50% of the production of ceramic products in Turkey, and to analyze the relationships between the network positions and the innovation performance of firms. To that end, in-depth interviews were conducted with 56 firms/institutions in the cluster. Social network analysis was used to generate network graphs demonstrating the buyer-supplier relations and technical advice ties of the actors in the cluster, and the relationship between the innovation performance of firms and their positions in the network was estimated with the Heckman selection model. The findings of the study show that firms in the EBK ceramic cluster have access to the basic activities in the value chain within the cluster and that the network of technical advice has a small number of actors and ties. In addition, degree centrality, which represents the number of ties the firms have, and closeness centrality, which represents the distance of actors from other actors in the network structure, increase the innovation performance of firms.
Bio Note:
Gökhan Önder is working as an assistant professor at Anadolu University Faculty of Business Administration. He had a Ph.D. in Management and Organization from Anadolu University. He conducts research on issues such as foreign direct investments, business clusters, entrepreneurship, and resource efficiency. His research was published in journals such as the Journal of Industrial & Business Economics, Clean Technologies & Environmental Policy, Business, Management & Economics Engineering.
