Multinationals’ recruiting in industrial districts

HERVAS-OLIVER, JOSE LUIS; Belso-Martinez, José A.; Díez-Vial, Isabel

Multinationals’ recruiting in industrial districts

Authors

HERVAS-OLIVER, JOSE LUIS

Belso-Martinez, José A.

Díez-Vial, Isabel

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Routledge
United Kingdom

Description

This paper explains how multinationals source specific tacit and sticky technical knowledge in industrial districts through recruiting. Focusing on the location of the textile-dedicated company ZARA in a footwear-dedicated Marshallian industrial district, we study its recruiting strategy using mixed methods. ZARA recruits district footwear expertise by seeking primarily local workers with strong relational ties and intensive tacit knowledge originating from the best footwear-dedicated local firms that master knowledge on operations and expertise on managing local networks of subcontractors. Good local firms involuntarily benefit newcomer multinationals. The net effect on the district is the result of the tension between poaching and embeddedness and anchoring effects.

Keywords

Multinational enterprises, Marshallian industrial district, Tacit knowledge, Recruiting, Footwear

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Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver, Jose Antonio Belso-Martínez & Isabel Díez-Vial (2022) Multinationals’ recruiting in industrial districts, Regional Studies, 56:8, 1320-1332, DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2021.1967921
0034-3404
https://hdl.handle.net/11323/9533
10.1080/00343404.2021.1967921
1360-0591
Corporación Universidad de la Costa
REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/

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