The Locational Geography of Advanced Producer Service Firms: the Limits of Economies of Agglomeration

Moulaert, Frank; Gallouj, Camal

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“…The MAR externalities have traditionally focused on the manufacturing sector. Turning to knowledge‐intensive businesses, other strands of literature point to the importance of access to localized and relatively immobile tacit knowledge (Moulaert and Gallouj ; Pinch and Henry ). Jacobs () highlights the importance of knowledge spillovers but emphasizes sources of knowledge from outside the firm and its core industry.…”

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Human capital in firms and regions: Impact on firm productivity

Bäckman

2014

Papers in Regional Science

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This paper analyses the importance of human capital for firm productivity and makes a clear distinction between the role of human capital inside and outside of the firm. A multilevel model is used for the business service sector in Sweden controlling for heterogeneity across the industry and municipal level. Human capital in firms in terms of education, experience, and cognitive skills and the firm's overall access to human capital has a positive impact on firm productivity. In addition, firm attributes explain the largest proportion of firm productivity variance.

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Section: Human Capital and Firm Productivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Human capital in firms and regions: Impact on firm productivity

Bäckman

2014

Papers in Regional Science

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“…While Johannison conceives economies of overview as a purely local externality, the notion of overview economies may also be theorised as a trans-local network externality. Moulaert and colleagues have extended the notion of overview to a multi-level conception (MOULAERT and MARTINELLI, 1993;MOULAERT and DJELLAL, 1995) by arguing that "economies of overview can only be realised if synergies between elements stemming from different spatial levels and forms are achieved" (MOULAERT and DJELLAL, 1995: 109). In the context of knowledge services, location in metropolitan agglomerations may convey returns on the access to trans-local resources such as global networks of clients and knowledge flow.…”

Section: From Local Externalities To Trans-local Network Externalitiesmentioning

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Geography of Reputation: The City as the Locus of Business Opportunity

Glückler¹

2007

Regional Studies

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Gluckler J. (2007) Geography of reputation: the city as the locus of business opportunity, Regional Studies 41, 949-961. The paper discusses the limits of current cluster theory and theorizes trans-local network externalities as an important cause for the urban agglomeration of knowledge services. A survey of management consulting firms in the metropolitan region of Frankfurt demonstrates that the benefit of co-location in the city lies in the access to reputation networks rather than in the exploitation of local value chain linkages. The city is a locus of opportunity because firms in the city have a higher share of distant clients and because distant clients are won more often through referrals. Cities are reputational nodes for trans-local business development. Gluckler J. (2007) La geographie de la reputation: la grande ville comme vivier d'opportunites commerciales, Regional Studies 41, 949-961. Cet article discute des limites de la theorie des grappes actuelle et emet des theories sur l'importance des effets externes translocaux en reseau comme cause de l'agglomeration urbaine des services de la connaissance. Une enquete menee aupres des cabinets de conseil en gestion situes dans la region metropolitaine de Francfort montre que les avantages de l'emplacement en ville s'explique par l'acces a des reseaux de reputation plutot que par l'exploitation des chaines de valeur locales. La grande ville constitue un vivier d'opportunites car les entreprises y jouissent d'une part plus importante des clients lointains et parce que les clients lointains sont gagnes normalement par recommandation. Les grandes villes sont des noeuds de reputation pour le developpement du commerce translocal. Reseau de villes a l'echelle mondiale Services aux entreprises Conseil Reputation Connaissance Theorie des grappes Gluckler J. (2007) Geografie der Reputation: die Grossstadt als Ort der Geschaftschancen, Regional Studies 41, 949-961. In diesem Beitrag werden die Grenzen der gegenwartigen Cluster-Theorie erortert, und die translokalen Netzwerk-Externalitaten werden als wichtige Ursache fur die urbane Agglomeration von Wissensdiensten theoretisiert. Aus einer Erhebung uber Unternehmensberatungsfirmen im Grossraum Frankfurt geht hervor, dass der Nutzen einer gemeinsamen Grossstadtlage weniger in der Nutzung von lokalen Verknupfungen der Wertschopfungskette als vielmehr im Zugang zu Reputationsnetzen begrundet liegt. Die Grossstadt ist ein Ort der Chancen, denn dort ansassige Firmen haben einen hoheren Anteil an entfernten Kunden, und entfernte Kunden werden haufiger durch Weiterempfehlung gewonnen. Grossstadte sind Reputationsknoten zur Entwicklung von translokalen Geschaften. Weltstadt-Netzwerk Geschaftsdienste Beratung Reputation Wissen Cluster-Theorie Gluckler J. (2007) Geografia de reputacion: la ciudad como centro de oportunidades comerciales, Regional Studies 41, 949-961. En este ensayo se analizan los limites de la teoria actual de agrupacion y se argumenta que las externalidades de redes translocales son una causa importante par...

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“…La distribución espacial de los servicios ha ocupado un lugar importante en la geografía económica reciente (Bettencourt, Ostrom, Brown & Roundtree, 2002;Cuadrado-Roura, 2013b;Miles et al, 1995;Moulaert & Gallouj, 1993;Nachum, 2000;Ström, 2015;Tanaka & Okamoto, 2008;Shearmour & Doloreux, 2008. Principalmente los servicios que generan alto valor agregado, como los servicios intensivos en conocimiento (kibs, por sus siglas en inglés: knowledge intensive business services) y los servicios a las empresas, han concentrado gran parte de la atención de los investigadores (Bryson & Daniels, 2015;Shearmur & Doloreux, 2014;Ström, 2015).…”

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