Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
5-2011
Abstract
In this paper we reflect on the contribution of our 1989 article ‘Competitive Groups as Cognitive Communities: The Case of Scottish Knitwear Manufacturers’. We begin by recalling our backgrounds and motivations as collaborators on the project, and then discuss recent developments in the Scottish Borders knitwear industry. Noting that the industry has suffered continual decline in the twenty years since we published our paper, we suggest that the case still raises issues that remain open questions in the field despite the significant efforts by management researchers in recent years to understand the sources of industrial decline and revitalization. We outline what we feel are gaps in the existing literature and then end with the suggestion that these gaps are likely to be addressed only through multidisciplinary research that integrates resource, power, and cognitive theories of industrial dynamics.
Discipline
Organizational Behavior and Theory | Strategic Management Policy
Research Areas
Strategy and Organisation
Publication
Journal of Management Studies
Volume
48
Issue
3
First Page
646
Last Page
664
ISSN
0022-2380
Identifier
10.1111/j.1467-6486.2010.00988.x
Publisher
Wiley
Citation
PORAC, Joseph F.; THOMAS, Howard; and BADEN-FULLER, Charles.
Competitive Groups as Cognitive Communities: The Case of Scottish Knitwear Manufacturers Revisited. (2011). Journal of Management Studies. 48, (3), 646-664.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3915
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Authors
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2010.00988.x