Abstract
This paper is aimed as a contribution to the process of upgrading old industrial clusters towards a new status of innovative clusters. The concept of ‘lock-in’ is followed as it applies to a specific resource-based industrial cluster, to assess the value of this concept in the degradation of such clusters in a Chinese context. After identifying factors leading to the lock-in situation, we introduce the analytical framework of He–Xie Management Theory to investigate the potential role of this emerging management theory in promoting transition from old industrial clusters to innovative regions.
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