A test for the coincident economic and spatial clustering of business enterprises |
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Authors: | Edward J Feser Stuart H Sweeney |
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Institution: | (1) Department of City and Regional Planning, CB 3140, Howell Building, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3140, USA (e-mail: feser@email.unc.edu), US;(2) Department of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060, USA, US |
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Abstract: | This paper uses input-output data combined with point process modeling techniques to test whether enterprises linked within
nominal buyer-supplier chains have a greater propensity to cluster in space than manufacturing enterprises in general. The
methodology controls for the general tendency of firms to seek locations in concentrated agglomerations and isolates the influence
of firm interdependence on spatial clustering. Our findings suggest that there is indeed an association between economic linkages
and geographic clustering in our study area, but only for some types of economic clusters, mainly those that are comprised
mainly of more knowledge-based or technology-intensive sectors. In general, we endeavor to show that spatial analytical methods
hold considerable promise for conducting rigorous tests of industrial location questions.
Received: 9 September 1998 / Accepted: 12 December 1999 |
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Keywords: | : Spatial clustering industry clusters input-output |
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