Design of a performance measurement model for industrial clusters in Turkey

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2010

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Gürellier, Özlem

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Despite the advantages and dominance of globalization in today’s world economics; clusters, as a regional based development tool, still attract many researchers and policy makers from all over the world in order to obtain sustainable competitiveness. As a result of fast rising number of cluster development policies and initiatives, the importance of measuring the performance of clusters arises. The purpose of this thesis is to design a performance measurement model, which will be applied to industrial clusters in Turkey. A model framework is developed, based on expected outcomes of clusters which are classified as productivity, innovativeness, new business formations and social capital. Indicators are selected based on extensive literature survey under these four determinants, and a scorecard is developed. After the design phase, the performance of two cluster cases from Turkey is studied. In order to improve clustering approach, it is important to monitor, measure identify the progress of clusters. It is believed that this work will be utile for policy makers to identify whether the interventions, incentives and promotions are beneficial for the desired purposes and whether they are used effectively.

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Industrial clusters, Industrial engineering.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612793/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/20222

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis