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    "You Can't Make a Good Wine Without a Few Beers": Gatekeepers and knowledge flow in industrial districts

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    Authors
    Mitchell, R.
    Boyle, B.
    Burgess, John
    McNeil, K.
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Mitchell, R. and Boyle, B. and Burgess, J. and McNeil, K. 2014. "You Can't Make a Good Wine Without a Few Beers": Gatekeepers and knowledge flow in industrial districts. Journal of Business Research. 67 (10): pp. 2198-2206.
    Source Title
    Journal of Business Research
    DOI
    10.1016/j.jbusres.2014.01.007
    ISSN
    0148-2963
    Faculty
    Curtin Business School (CBS)
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34247
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Knowledge sharing sometimes plays a key role in the performance of clustered organizations, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), however, SMEs also face significant knowledge-related disadvantages due to their lack of absorptive capacity and functional expertise. This study investigates the influence of technical specialists on knowledge flow in a wine cluster in Australia. The main contribution of this paper is a finding that the technical specialist's gatekeeping role both links clustered SMEs to the global wine “systemworld” by transferring knowledge of technical developments and innovation, and simultaneously develops and refines regional winemaking styles by sharing locally specific, experientially derived knowledge. Technical specialists drew on bridging and bonding social capital to identify and retrieve specialist knowledge, and were capable of assimilating complex technical knowledge into the cluster. These findings are particularly significant because recipients were typically small and micro-firms, which are frequently located outside cluster knowledge-network.

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