Creation of an instrument to measure the impact of a cluster on its members’ productivity

Karol Stephany Villarreal Zambrano, Luz María Valdez De La Rosa

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Resumen

The home appliance industry, which includes electrical or mechanical devices used in a household, is a multi-billion-dollar industry. The state of Nuevo León is the main producer of household appliances in México and is also accountable for a large contribution of the national exports of this sector. For this reason, a Home Appliance Cluster exists, which is devoted to increasing this region’s competitiveness. By using a systematic literature review, a knowledge gap was discovered, regarding the factors of a cluster that determine the productivity of companies in this industry. Literature shows few to almost non-existing measurement instruments to analyze the impact that active participation within a cluster has on firm’s productivity. The present research finds three factors that come from belonging to a cluster and have an impact on firms’ productivity: Geographic proximity, social capital and innovation. These factors, in the form of constructs, were put together to create a measurement instrument that will allow us to quantify the impact on firms’ productivity. The instrument was validated in three steps: Through concordance and relevance tests, a tuning meeting with clusters’ heads, and, when all data was gathered, construct validation using Cronbach’s alpha. This study presents an analysis of each factor, and the process of the creation of a measurement instrument.
Idioma originalEnglish
Título de la publicación alojadaProceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, 2021
EditorialIEOM Society
Páginas2349-2362
Número de páginas14
ISBN (versión impresa)9781792361241
EstadoPublished - 2021
Evento11th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, IEOM 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duración: 7 mar 202111 mar 2021

Serie de la publicación

NombreProceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
ISSN (versión digital)2169-8767

Conference

Conference11th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, IEOM 2021
CiudadVirtual, Online
Período7/3/2111/3/21

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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Estrategia y gestión
  • Ciencia de la gestión e investigación de operaciones
  • Ingeniería de control y sistemas
  • Ingeniería industrial y de fabricación

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