Gaining Competitive Advantage Within Cluster Business Infrastructures

The clustering process has experienced unprecedented dynamics in recent years, as it has the potential for creating added value above all collaborative organizations spaced-apart from each other. The important role of organizing the business activities in crowded structures, as innovative forms of spatial organization, in order to ensure a more efficient and effective business by using the synergy between organizations, stirs the interest of researchers in management. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the theoretical contributions that allow the understanding of behaviors that can be adopted by the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in terms of clustering to enable them to obtain and develop their competitive advantage. The research is mainly exploratory (the aim being to clarify the issue of clustering processes to create and maintain sustainable competitive advantage) with descriptive (investigating the clustering phenomenon) and explanatory (for evolutionary analysis of clusters) aspects. Research results refer to the discovery and identification of the characteristics and innovation content of spatial organization of business clusters, in the developed countries of Europe and European Union, to inspire similar efforts in the Central and Eastern Europe.