INTER-FIRM KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGES AND THE KNOWLEDGE CREATION CAPABILITY OF CLUSTERS ANDAÇ T. ARIKAN Florida Atlantic University College of Business Department of Management, IB and Entrepreneurship 777 Glades Road Boca Raton, FL 33431 Tel: (561) 297-1247 Fax: (561) 297-2675 E-mail: aarikan@fau.edu FORTHCOMING – ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW Acknowledgements: I would like to thank Melissa Schilling, Taco Reus, Mike Barnett, associate editor Aks Zaheer and three anonymous AMR reviewers for valuable comments at various stages of this manuscript. Remaining errors are mine. 1