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Workplane - WORKPACKAGE 6

Universitaet Mannheim

Objectives

  • The aim of the work package is to provide empirical results which show the impact of the presence of Anchor Organizations, the membership in regional clusters and cross-regional networks on the performance of individual firms and entire regions.

Description of work

Task 6.1 Different statistical methods will be used, depending on the specific research setting, data structure and research questions.

Task 6.2 Tests of developed hypotheses.

Task 6.3 Analysis of multivariate longitudinal data - event history analysis.

Task 6.4 Selection of appropriate estimation models

Task 6.5 Consideration of problems of autocorrelation when using longitudinal data

Task 6.6 Sensitivity tests to assess the robustness of the results

Task 6.7 Interpretation of the individual results obtained by each research group