Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 The theoretical foundations of clusters as meta-organisations -- 1 Clusters as collective actors and agents of change for (new) sustainable path development -- 2 Meta-organisation as partial organisation: an integrated framework of organisationality and decisionality
3 What governance for regional innovation clusters? Meta-organisational analysis of the German innovation cluster 'Physics for Food' -- 4 Meta-organising clusters as agents of transformative change through 'responsible actorhood' -- Part 2 Internal dynamics of clusters as meta-organisations -- 5 From a wasteland to a creative community: the significance of meta-organising for cluster policy -- 6 Managing sustainability issues of a territory through multi-stakeholder meta-organisations -- 7 Are North American clusters transitioning to clean technologies?
8 Clean technology clusters: meta-organising firms for sustainability -- Part 3 Clusters as meta-organisations in a broader context -- 9 The roles of meta-organisations in transitions: analysing the food packaging cluster in Finland -- 10 Meta-organisations as drivers for sustainability across tourism clusters in the Alps: a case study of 'Alpine Pearls' -- 11 Urban super-cluster as a novel approach to clustering in megapolises: the case of Moscow Innovation Cluster -- 12 Meta-organisations and clusters in climate regimes -- Part 4 Conclusions -- 13 Conclusions -- Index