The Role of Different Proximities to Build Business Relationships in a Cluster: the Case of the Local Productive System: Mecanic Vallée
Our article aim to study the impact of different forms of proximity (geographic, organizational, cognitive and social) in order to explain the existence of business relationship inside a cluster. A focus will be made on the influence of social proximity measure through personal relationships to explain the emergencies of business relationships. We propose a case study of the local productive system Mecanic Vallée based on a mixt methodology which propose quantitative results of a binary logit model completed by qualitative case studies of firms.