TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beck, Nikolaus 
AU  - Swaminathan, Anand 
AU  - Wade, James B. 
AU  - Wezel,  Filippo Carlo 
TI  - Industry Clusters and Organizational Prototypes: Evidence From the Franconian Brewing Industry 
KW  - organizational ecology
KW  - identity
KW  - prototype
KW  - multidimensionality
KW  - industry cluster
N2  - In this article, we argue that in addition to facilitating organizational learning and specialization, an industry cluster related to tradition or to the practice of a craft influences audience expectations through the definition of the prototypical features that define an organizational form. Analyzing the population of northern Bavarian (Franconian) breweries, we show that compliance with a prototype involves multiple dimensions and depends on an organization’s location in geographic space with reference to the center of the industry cluster. Using qualitative interviews, archival data, and a survey of consumers, we provide evidence that as distance from the cluster center increases, organizations are more likely to deviate from the prototype and suffer fewer of the negative consequences that result from such deviations
ER  -