clusters

Description Many firms today form alliances with their suppliers and customers that do not fit into the classical dichotomy of hierarchies and markets.The emergence of so-called hybrid relational forms makes the make-or-buy decision more complicated than the neo-classical economic perspective...

Mining Projected Clusters in High-Dimensional Spaces Chapter-1 1. INTR D!CTI N 1.1 Introduction Data mining is the process of extracting potentially useful information from a data set. Clustering is a popular data mining technique which is intended to help the user discover and understand the...

Selection of Clusters:- The selection of clusters is based on their geographical concentration which should be around 500 beneficiary families of artisans/micro enterprises, suppliers of raw materials, traders, service providers, etc., located within one or two revenue...

In a neat industrial area on the outskirts of Chennai is the factory of export house Farida Group. Inside the spacious workplace are rows of women in uniform blue jackets and men in blue-gray polo shirts who quietly operate moulding and pressing machines. At the beginning of the rows are...

This paper reviews the available literature to identify key processes at work and the gaps in the understanding of these processes. It is suggested that the nature and quantum of knowledge flows in a cluster would depend upon its (a) internal characteristics, (b) external linkages and (c)...