Microfoundations of technology cluster emergence in emerging economies: Mindsets of natives and non-natives in Johannesburg, South Africa

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2022-09-06 DOI:10.1080/23322373.2022.2106928

B. A. Gilbert

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ABSTRACT Where technology clusters are concerned, extant research has primarily highlighted those that are situated in developed economies. The literature shows that immigrants – those who have moved to a region from other places – have been instrumental in the technology cluster emergence process. However, the heavy emphasis on developed economies has limited our understanding of technology cluster emergence in emerging economy contexts, and the ways that immigrants – the non-natives in a region – or natives – those born in a region – contribute to this process. This paper explores this issue through comparison of nine microfoundations for technology cluster emergence within regional natives and non-natives in the emerging technology cluster context of Johannesburg, South Africa. The research shows that natives and non-natives exhibit different profiles, with demographic factors accounting for some of the observed differences. Importantly, the research contributes to the field the understanding that natives and non-natives in emerging economies hold different potentials to influence technology cluster emergence and, therefore, may require different policy interventions to promote technology cluster development in emerging economies.

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新兴经济体技术集群出现的微观基础：南非约翰内斯堡本地人和非本地人的心态

就技术集群而言，现有的研究主要侧重于那些位于发达经济体的技术集群。文献表明，移民——那些从其他地方搬到一个地区的人——在技术集群出现的过程中起到了重要作用。然而，对发达经济体的过度强调限制了我们对新兴经济体背景下技术集群出现的理解，以及移民(一个地区的非本地人)或本地人(一个地区出生的人)对这一过程的贡献。本文通过比较南非约翰内斯堡新兴技术集群背景下本地和非本地技术集群形成的9个微观基础来探讨这一问题。研究表明，本地人和非本地人表现出不同的特征，人口因素解释了一些观察到的差异。重要的是，该研究有助于本领域理解新兴经济体的本地人和非本地人对技术集群出现的影响潜力不同，因此可能需要不同的政策干预来促进新兴经济体的技术集群发展。

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Africa Journal of Management Business, Management and Accounting-Business and International Management

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期刊介绍： The beginning of the Twenty First Century has witnessed Africa’s rise and progress as one of the fastest growing and most promising regions of the world. At the same time, serious challenges remain. To sustain and speed up momentum, avoid reversal, and deal effectively with emerging challenges and opportunities, Africa needs better management scholarship, education and practice. The purpose of the Africa Journal of Management (AJOM) is to advance management theory, research, education, practice and service in Africa by promoting the production and dissemination of high quality and relevant manuscripts. AJOM is committed to publishing original, rigorous, scholarly empirical and theoretical research papers, which demonstrate clear understanding of the management literature and draw on Africa’s local indigenous knowledge, wisdom and current realities. As the first scholarly journal of the Africa Academy of Management (AFAM), AJOM gives voice to all those who are committed to advancing management scholarship, education and practice in or about Africa, for the benefit of all of Africa. AJOM welcomes manuscripts that develop, test, replicate or validate management theories, tools and methods with Africa as the starting point. The journal is open to a wide range of quality, evidence-based methodological approaches and methods that “link” “Western” management theories with Africa’s indigenous knowledge systems, methods and practice. We are particularly interested in manuscripts which address Africa’s most important development needs, challenges and opportunities as well as the big management questions of the day. We are interested in research papers which address issues of ethical conduct in different African settings.