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Coronavirus versus the textile industry: cluster lessons for future challenges
Since the pandemic situation was officially declared, part of society was immersed in searching desperately for solutions to combat it. Textile firms addressed with uneven effectiveness the challenge of creating products that helped medical and civil professionals (e.g., personal protection equipmen...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8947852/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40691-021-00284-3 |
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author | Puig, Francisco Cantarero, Santiago Verdone, Francesco |
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description | Since the pandemic situation was officially declared, part of society was immersed in searching desperately for solutions to combat it. Textile firms addressed with uneven effectiveness the challenge of creating products that helped medical and civil professionals (e.g., personal protection equipment, masks, sanitary material, etc.). To do this, they had to face supply problems, lockdown, and make a significant innovative effort. This work aims to analyze the strategic response of the companies belonging to the Valencian Textile Cluster (VTC) (Spain) to the coronavirus crisis and the territorial factors that influenced it. We carried out a content analysis of the news in the main newspapers during February–July (2020). Our analysis revealed that, on average, VTC firms responded to the challenge more quickly and effectively than other Spanish textile firms. The most influential location-specific factors were the clustering developed, institutional support, and a deep-rooted tradition in producing technical-home textiles, although we also detected that social media collaborated in the process of transferring value information. The influence of all these factors was more intense in the epicenter of the cluster (Ontinyent). Consequently, our results highlight the cluster effect and offer lessons that can help manage unexpected future events more effectively. |
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spelling | pubmed-89478522022-03-25 Coronavirus versus the textile industry: cluster lessons for future challenges Puig, Francisco Cantarero, Santiago Verdone, Francesco Fash Text Research Since the pandemic situation was officially declared, part of society was immersed in searching desperately for solutions to combat it. Textile firms addressed with uneven effectiveness the challenge of creating products that helped medical and civil professionals (e.g., personal protection equipment, masks, sanitary material, etc.). To do this, they had to face supply problems, lockdown, and make a significant innovative effort. This work aims to analyze the strategic response of the companies belonging to the Valencian Textile Cluster (VTC) (Spain) to the coronavirus crisis and the territorial factors that influenced it. We carried out a content analysis of the news in the main newspapers during February–July (2020). Our analysis revealed that, on average, VTC firms responded to the challenge more quickly and effectively than other Spanish textile firms. The most influential location-specific factors were the clustering developed, institutional support, and a deep-rooted tradition in producing technical-home textiles, although we also detected that social media collaborated in the process of transferring value information. The influence of all these factors was more intense in the epicenter of the cluster (Ontinyent). Consequently, our results highlight the cluster effect and offer lessons that can help manage unexpected future events more effectively. Springer Singapore 2022-03-25 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8947852/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40691-021-00284-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Research Puig, Francisco Cantarero, Santiago Verdone, Francesco Coronavirus versus the textile industry: cluster lessons for future challenges |
title | Coronavirus versus the textile industry: cluster lessons for future challenges |
title_full | Coronavirus versus the textile industry: cluster lessons for future challenges |
title_fullStr | Coronavirus versus the textile industry: cluster lessons for future challenges |
title_full_unstemmed | Coronavirus versus the textile industry: cluster lessons for future challenges |
title_short | Coronavirus versus the textile industry: cluster lessons for future challenges |
title_sort | coronavirus versus the textile industry: cluster lessons for future challenges |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8947852/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40691-021-00284-3 |
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