Multiple forces of economic globalization and evolutionary development of local clusters:The case study of the automotive parts industry cluster in Yuhuan,Zhejiang province
Evolutionary economic geography is a mainstream theory for understanding cluster evolution,but it tends to fall into intellectualism,which ignores the impact of markets and competition on cluster evolution.In recent years,evolutionary economic geography has incorporated global knowledge connections into its theoretical framework to explain local cluster evolution,greatly enhancing its explanatory power for cluster evolution.In the Chinese context,however,it is difficult to fully and profoundly understand the process of local cluster evolutionary development without considering the integrated effects of multiple forces of economic globalization.Based on evolutionary economic geography,this study constructs a theoretical framework for the interaction between global forces and local cluster evolutionary development from three dimensions:global market,global competition,and global knowledge.A case study of the Yuhuan automotive parts industry cluster was conducted to empirically validate the framework.The research findings are as follows:(1)global market facilitates the expansion of cluster scale,(2)global competition has a negative impact on cluster market share,and(3)global knowledge promotes the evolution of intra-cluster enterprise structure.These findings suggest that evolutionary economic geography must consider the impact of factors such as markets,competition,and knowledge on the evolution of industrial clusters or regional industries.This study refined the cluster evolution theory based on evolutionary economic geography,and the research conclusions have reference value for China's promotion of the transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing clusters to advanced manufacturing clusters.
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