Knowledge exchange and ethnic networks of clustered small-scale enterprises in Africa: A case study of furniture cluster in Tanzania

Background: Industrial clusters remain at the initial stage in the sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region. They produce low-quality and similar products that are poorly innovative and therefore unable to expand. Ethnicity is a characteristic imprint of SSA clusters. However, little research has been done on SSA industrial clusters being able to explore ethnic effects on cluster development, in particular the cases where ethnic majority is...