The Role of Personal Factors in the Location Decision of Software Services Start-up Firms

This paper explores the factors which influence the business location decisions of start-ups, focusing in particular on the role of personal factors. Established explanations of industry location emphasize proximity to firms in the same or related industries and proximity to a wider set of business services, though recent research suggests that personal factors may play an important role in explanations of industry location—particularly in technology-enabled sectors. A survey of 97 new firms, founded between 2008 and 2012, in the Irish software services sector, shows that the business location decision is influenced by the personal motivation of entrepreneurs to attain a desired quality of life, and that this outweighs economic factors such as proximity to firms within the same or related industries, proximity to a broader set of supporting business services, infrastructure or the availability of government support schemes. Personal factors are particularly important to firms located outside the Dublin metropolitan area and to home-based businesses. This has important policy implications for national and regional governments seeking to encourage entrepreneurship in technology-enabled service sectors.     

京津冀地区城市间行业工资差异及影响因素分析

基于2005-2012年京津冀各城市工资及其它社会经济数据,探讨了市场潜能、产业集聚、人力资本、制度改革等因素对城市间各行业工资差异的影响。结果表明：①市场潜能对各行业工资水平的增长均有一定的促进作用。②除消费性服务业外,各类产业集聚对地区平均工资水平的提高均有一定的促进作用,但制造业集聚带来的拥挤效应也已开始体现;生产性服务业集聚能够带动公共性服务业工资的提升,而公共性服务业缺乏对生产性服务业的反哺;产业集聚对消费性服务业工资缺乏带动作用。③在控制变量方面,交通基础设施对工资水平的带动作用逐渐弱化;科技投入、人力资本对服务业工资水平的带动作用较高,而对制造业影响较弱;市场经济体制改革对工资水平的带动作用仍未体现;政府市场干预能力的提高仅带动了公共性服务业工资的提升,而外向度的提升则仅对公共性服务业缺乏带动作用。     

高速铁路对中国城市产业结构的影响研究

交通是影响城市产业发展的重要因素,高铁作为一种新型交通工具必将对城市产业发展产生影响。修正市场潜力模型分析高铁对中国城市产业结构的影响。结果表明：①总体上,高铁提升了城市服务业的比重,降低了城市制造业的比重;制造业型城市和服务业型城市的服务业比重都得到提升,制造业比重都下降;从单个城市来看,高铁提升了大多数制造业型城市和大多数服务业型城市服务业的比重。②对于制造业型城市的产业结构升级,高铁主要促进该类城市一般服务业比重的提升;对于服务业型城市的产业结构强化,高铁主要促进这些城市高端服务业比重的提升。③高铁的开通增强了中心城市的溢出效应,促进了中心城市及其周边城市的产业结构升级。     

The geology of Scotland: A review

The hypothesis of the study is that external influences play a more dominant role than internal factors in influencing village population growth. Furthermore, the importance of any given index associated with village population growth may oscillate through given time periods. Factors selected are size of place, occupational grouping, urban influence and regional location. Their association with the population changes of Ontario villages are examined for three time periods, 1941–1951, 1951–1961, 1961–1966. The analysis indicates that external factors, regional location, and urban influences are most important.     

Management cultures and regional development: High performance management and the location of new manufacturing plants

In-depth case studies of new manufacturing plants are used to motivate a new business location model that incorporates management practices and cultures as location factors. This model is tested using US data on the location of new manufacturing plants. It is found that plants that adopt high performance management practices and cultures rely on different criteria when making their location decisions from those plants that are managed in more traditional ways. Omitting management culture from studies of business location may result in biased estimates of the importance of various traditional location factors. By demonstrating that location decisions are differentiated according to the management practices of firms, it is argued that regional development planning should pay more attention to specific business characteristics and that regional development policy include programmes that strengthen complementarities between management practices and the regional economic environment.     

Neoliberalism and Suburban Employment: Western Sydney in the 1990s

During the past 15 years metropolitan planning strategies of the NSW state government have done little to address the spatial distribution of either employment or labour market equity within the metropolis. In the fast‐growing outer western suburbs, the government has focused on attracting business investment to increase the stock of local jobs and to improve employment ‘self‐sufficiency’— a dominantly neoliberal policy framework. This paper explores a widening gulf between the reality of outer urban change and this policy framework by considering changes in the location of jobs and in the employment experiences of residents in Greater Western Sydney (GWS). Evidence is drawn from census journey‐to‐work data (1991–2001). While holding a majority of manufacturing jobs in Sydney, GWS also experienced continued growth of jobs in service industries during the 1990s. Yet the relative importance of employment in the city's fast‐growth finance and business services sector still lags well behind that of inner and northern parts of the city. The focus on growing the regional stock of jobs has not addressed problems of labour market access faced by residents of particular localities and the goal of employment self‐sufficiency has not delivered greater equity to outer suburban labour markets. A focus on sufficiency of access to employment for residents of GWS draws attention not only to regional stocks of jobs but also to the provision of social infrastructure and state‐provided services to outer suburban populations as they continue to expand.     

辽宁省城市中心性研究与城市发展

以辽宁省地级及以上城市为研究对象,在建立评价指标体系基础上,基于区位商法和主成分分析法,对城市中心性进行了测度和研究。通过对过程数据和结果数据的进一步分析,发现辽宁省当前城市发展在区域经济空间结构、社会经济体制、第三产业、经济外向度等方面存在的问题,并提出了相关的政策建议。     

高速铁路对节点城市旅游业发展的影响研究——以西安市为例

高速铁路的的时空压缩优势有效的提高了节点城市的可达性,扩展了客源范围,必将对旅游产业的供给水平产生影响。本文以西安市作为实证对象,首先,通过灰色关联度和引力测度,说明高速铁路的建设对西安旅游产业产生的重要影响。据此,结合其他高铁节点城市的发展经验和国内外高铁与旅游融合发展的经验,本文着重探讨了高铁影响下西安旅游空间结构演进、旅游商业模式创新和旅游公共服务体系完善的路径,并提出了相应的对策和建议。     

Modern Location Factors in Dynamic Regions

Globalization has had an enormous impact on traditional industrial structures. It almost seems that everything is everywhere the same. And yet, in reality, some regions in a single industrialized country enjoy rapid economic growth while others are downsizing or stagnating. Thus there must be some remaining regional competitive advantages—even in the “Age of Globalization”. This paper engages in a quest to discover what these modern location factors might be and how and why they are necessary in creating dynamics and regional growth. In doing so, we link the driving forces behind these modern location factors with regional performance and eventually arrive at a concept of a regional lifecycle and its key dynamics. Using data that paint a comprehensive picture of industry and regional development in Germany we try to find empirical evidence for our approach.     

长江三角洲城市旅游空间结构形成的产业机理——基于旅游企业空间区位选择视角

长江三角洲城市旅游企业空间布局状况对城市旅游增长极与城市旅游核心-边缘空间结构的形成具有重要影响。长江三角洲城市旅游空间一体化发展及城市旅游核心区与边缘区的协同发展目标的实现,旅游企业空间区位选择费用最小化行为是一种重要的实现推动力。旅游企业在城市旅游核心区或边缘区的布局是旅游企业在固定成本与旅游接待人次两种因素之间博弈的过程。旅游企业选择在城市旅游空间集聚区还是在非集聚区布局取决于在集聚区获得集聚经济的程度、集聚区产生的集聚不经济程度及非集聚区土地等成本的差异等。     

The Impact of Agglomeration Economies on Estimated Demand Thresholds: An Extension of Wensley and Stabler

Central place theory predicts that geographic markets located in rural areas have lower demand thresholds, and, therefore, a higher frequency of business establishments relative to areas that are more proximate to urban centers, other things equal. Wensley and Stabler (1998) confirm this prediction using data on the location and frequency of business activities in rural Saskatchewan. We demonstrate that this relationship may not always hold true depending on the existence and magnitude of agglomeration economies. If average cost differences associated with being located in an urbanized area are sufficiently large, then the relationship between urban proximity and number of establishments may be reversed. We provide evidence of this reversal using 1996 cross-sectional data on hospital services in Texas.     

城市游憩商业区空间结构的发展演变及其相关影响因素研究——以广州为例

城市游憩商业区的发展是和社会、政治、经济、城市本身的发展紧密联系在一起的。城市游憩商业区系统是一个多种因素共同作用的复合系统,它的空间位置、外在表现形态、功能与组织形式都在动态地演变着。通过对广州历史上游憩商业区的形成、空间结构的变迁以及影响其空间结构变迁的相关因素的研究,探讨城市游憩商业区发展的历史轨迹与一般性规律。     

生产性服务业的区位驱动力与区域经济发展研究

“服务社会”中生产性服务业对区域经济发展的巨大作用,促使研究者日益关注它们的区位驱动力。在国内外研究的基础上,文章从服务生产的性质出发,探讨其隐含的区位意义,并结合对生产性服务业区位的动力机制及其对区位的作用的分析,来说明生产性服务业在区位上的集聚或扩散现象。在此基础上,阐述了在不同层面上生产性服务业的区位分布对不同国家和地区经济发展产生的影响。     

国内外农民工空间回流及其区位研究进展

农民工空间回流正在改变我国农民工流动的空间格局,而回流区位决定了空间回流的具体流向和回流者的空间分布。通过对国内外相关文献的梳理和分析,发现相关研究多集中于经济学、人口学和社会学等学科。在研究内容上,国外主要集中于空间回流动因的理论阐释、空间回流影响因素、空间回流评价和区域影响等方面,而国内主要关注到了空间回流动因与机制、回流地及回流意愿地空间特征、空间回流的区域影响等领域。农民工空间回流的产生是宏观因素、中观因素和微观因素综合作用的结果,实际回流区位多以农民工源地附近的县城和小城镇为主,而回流意愿地多为大中城市,意愿与现实矛盾突出。农民工空间回流对务工城市和来源地农村均产生了重要影响,但这种影响可能为正面影响,也可能为负面影响。今后应加强回流区位的研究,尤其是理论研究,通过对典型案例的剖析,归纳总结回流区位的一般规律,同时,在研究方法上应加强模型分析、定量分析、空间分析等方法的应用。     

TWENTIETH-CENTURY RETAIL CHANCE IN THE HALIFAX CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT

The Halifax downtown area has experienced considerably change in the amount, type, and location of retailing in this century, exemplifying many processes and patterns typical of North American cbds. Owing to increased competition from suburban business districts, retail activity has remained fairly constant in absolute terms but has declined relative to the rest of the urban area. In response, the mix of downtown retailing has been reoriented to emphasize the district's comparative advantages, cbd retailers have differentiated their goods and services from those of suburban competitors but have also attempted to provide settings and amenities - notably, indoor malls and off-street parking - which mimic those found at suburban shopping centres. Such changes are investigated in this case study by means of two broad questions: (1) how and why has the cbd's overall mix of retail types changed through time, and (2) how and why have changes occurred in the location of retailing and retail types within the cbd?     

城市民族餐馆空间分布的区位选择及文化邻近性

民族餐馆是餐饮服务业的特殊形式，认识其行业性质及文化特性是理解民族餐馆空间分布的关键。本研究以郑州、开封和洛阳为案例，从市场区位选择、文化邻近、城市格局等多个维度，对城市民族餐馆分布进行了探索性分析。研究发现，城市民族餐馆分布在空间分布结构上呈等级扩散分布，其集聚核心大多位于城市传统商业服务业中心；商圈、大学、医院等人口密集区，是城市民族餐馆市场选择的重要区位。民族餐馆与城市商圈具有较高的空间重合度，与大学、医院等区位要素空间关系因城而异。商圈周边布局民族餐馆的概率较高；城市民族餐馆在少数民族居住生活区域高度集中，民族商业文化传统对民族餐馆分布具有向心集聚作用。本研究认为城市民族餐馆分布取决于城市发展格局、市场区位选择及文化邻近的综合作用，民族餐馆的分布概率因城市规模大小、区位地点差异及空间尺度而发生变化。     

The resurgence of regional design

Regional design, long a backbone for spatial planning, even if under other names, has become topical again for two reasons – as a key strategy and as a key tool in spatial management. This is due to several reasons. New conditions of urbanization that result from the convergence of several factors highlight the need for spatial strategy formation and application at supra-metropolitan scales. These new conditions include globalization, climate change, booming urban population, increased mobility and interconnectivity, and new infrastructure technologies. These forces driving urbanization today and into the future play out at the urban scale, which is increasingly encompassed in the city-region. The solutions to the impacts and problems that these forces cause must be dealt with by a strategic urbanism at a scale that matches. This scale of urbanism can be denoted as regional design. To justify these claims and to understand the origins of regional design and its relevance today and into the future, the master strokes in its history are presented next. After that, we discuss current concepts and practices in regional design. In conclusion, we offer answers to the question: why a resurgence of regional design?     

基于演化理论的我国城市合作机理研究

全球化和区域竞争引发了广泛的城市合作实践。城市合作是特定地域空间中城市共生演化的动态过程,城市合作的形成与发展,是多种行为主体在多种环境因素和历史因素作用下互动博弈的结果。以新近兴起的演化经济学和演化经济地理学为基础,建构了一个城市合作研究的演化分析框架,探讨了城市合作的本质和内容,分析了我国城市合作模式的类别、演化过程和不同模式的有效性。城市合作的本质在于追求包括分享、匹配和学习三大效应的更高层级的集聚经济,演化理论可以为研究城市群的演化过程,探索适合我国国情和区域发展实际的城市合作模式。     

批发业空间及其形成机制研究综述

通过对国内外批发业空间及其形成机制的研究梳理,将批发业的研究分为三个阶段,一是20世纪30-60年代,依附于区位论的批发业区位研究,学者受克里斯塔勒的中心地理论影响,流行用与批发贸易相关的指标来测量城市中心性;二是20世纪70-90年代,对批发业区位进行专门研究,并对其形成机制的探讨程度加深;同时,通过研究批发业来探讨城镇体系的文献也较为多见;三是20世纪90年代中期至今,批发业的空间优化,并与现代物流业紧密结合。我国对批发业的学术研究主要集中在批发市场方面,且起步较晚,研究内容上,对批发市场空间布局及其影响因素的研究较为深入,但缺乏批发市场的空间演变及其形成机制的研究。同时,批发市场货流空间的研究、批发业交易功能与物流功能的空间分离关注较少。     

发展型城市政体主导的城市游憩商业区空间生产研究——以西安大唐不夜城为例

基于列斐伏尔空间三元论的理论视角,以西安大唐不夜城城市游憩商业区为例,采用城市政体理论的分析方法,深入探讨城市游憩商业区空间的生产机制和利益相关者之间的相互作用关系。研究发现：空间三元论可以用来解析城市游憩商业区的空间生产过程。空间的表征是政—商增长联盟主导构建符号化空间的过程。表征的空间中的社会关系,表现为发展型城市政体三方参与者的互动关系：一是公众在实体和虚拟空间中同步建构起来的空间想象和身份认同;二是政—商增长联盟对公众空间想象的积极回应,促使符号化空间的进一步情景化,以及空间的重塑。其中,网络时代的社交媒体已经成为公众参与城市政体议价的新路径。空间的实践表现在地域生产关系的转变和城市游憩商业区影响力的尺度跃迁。空间生产的上述三个方面是三位一体的辩证统一关系。研究还发现,在城市游憩商业区这种空间类型中,发展型城市政体导致公众对符号化空间规训的反应以悦纳为主,而非抵抗。