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Present chapter provides a practical overview about the most common types of SME groupings in a number of European countries, and about the agreements established among the network’s participants, to the aim of highlighting which main cooperation aspects have to be approached in designing a new cluster, and which collaboration rules have to be stated in order to build robust collaboration and avoid conflicts. Indeed, internal conflicts developing inside a SME cluster just formed to appear as the most dangerous of the problems which could affect these organizations: they could even lead to the cluster explosion.
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Villa, A., Taurino, T. (2011). Cooperative Agreements for SME Network Organization. In: Villa, A. (eds) Managing Cooperation in Supply Network Structures and Small or Medium-sized Enterprises. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-363-3_2
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