The Open Automation and Control Systems Journal

2014, 6 : 208-214
Published online 2014 December 16. DOI: 10.2174/1874444301406010208
Publisher ID: TOAUTOCJ-6-208

Effects of Cluster Network Structure to the Behavior of Enterprise Imitation

Lei Wang and Weimin Pan
Department of management, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China.

ABSTRACT

Since the 1990s, the research of cluster economy gradually becomes a topic of interest for academic economists and Management experts. In order to obtain the effects of cluster network structure on the behavior of enterprise imitation, based on neighbor effect, this paper builds dynamic model of a single enterprise income, then explores the propagation of corporate behavior under random network model, small world network model, scale-free network model. On the basis of neighbor average profit, this article makes a comparative analysis of the network structure imitation and then arrives at the cluster network structure's influence on the enterprise imitation.

Keywords:

Enterprise imitation behavior, industrial clusters, neighbor effect, network structure.