BACK TO THE FORMATION OF CONCEPTUAL-CATEGORIAL APPARATUS IN CLUSTERING THEORY
There are systemized and analyzed approaches of different authors regarding the formation of the cluster concept and its definition for its area of expertise. The deep analysis of advantages and disadvantages allowed to formulate the authors definition of the cluster concept, in which the author partially corrected the drawbacks of the existing approaches.
Olga A. Yurasova, posttgraduate student of Samara State University of Economics.