关键词: 公司创业 , 刻意学习 , 集群企业升级 , 产业集群 , corporate entrepreneurship, deliberate learning, clustered firm’s upgrading, industrial cluster

Abstract: We first define clustered firm's upgrading. Then, invoking organizational learning and knowledge-based theory, we reveal the underlying mechanism though which corporate entrepreneurship drives upgrading of clustered firms from the perspective of deliberate learning. We posit that, information search and experience accumulation during the process of corporate entrepreneurship provide clustered firm access to ‘new’ technological and market knowledge. And the deliberate learning process, involving knowledge dissemination within clustered firm and knowledge application, integrates the newly absorbed knowledge derived from entrepreneurial process with existing knowledge within the firm and generates useful technological knowledge and market knowledge which leads to clustered firm's upgrading. We collect data from 171 clustered firms within four industrial clusters in Zhejiang Province, and the empirical results generally support our hypotheses.