The Impact of Industrial Clusters Strategy on Sustainable Development by Enhancing Competitive Advantage as an Intermediate Variable An Applied Study on The Egyptian Small And Medium Industries

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1 Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport School of Advanced Studies in Management

2 Vice Dean of the College of Business for Community Service Affairs and Environmental Development - Alexandria University

3 Vice President of the Academy for Postgraduate Studies and Scientific Research

4 Marketing teacher Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport

Abstract

This study aimed to test the impact of the industrial cluster strategy with its dimensions: industrial cluster resources and industrial cluster relations on sustainable development, as well as to identify the role of the competitive advantage of small and medium industries as a mediating variable by applying it to Egyptian small and medium industries. It amounts to (21) industrial complexes in the governorates of the Republic.
The researcher relied on the descriptive approach by reviewing previous research, and the hypotheses were derived and tested statistically based on the data of the field study. In order to reach this goal, five basic hypotheses were tested, and a survey list was relied upon for all the primary data of the study.
The size of the research sample was (390) individuals at a rate of (62.5%), and the proposed model for the study was tested through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to include structural equation modeling (SEM), which was used to study the structural relationships between the study variables, as well as the application of multiple regression analysis. Multipl Regression using my program (SPSS, AMOS V.25).
The results concluded that there is a statistically significant mediating effect of the competitive advantage in the relationship between the industrial cluster strategy and sustainable development, and it fulfilled the conditions governing that relationship. As the value of the direct effect amounted to (0.50), the value of the indirect effect (0.44), and the value of the total effect (0.94), and therefore the intermediate variable, the competitive advantage, mediates the relationship between the independent variable, the strategy of industrial clusters, and the dependent variable, sustainable development. The strategy of industrial clusters has the greatest impact to ensure the achievement of all kinds of development, and Egypt can also benefit from international experiences.

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