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Work decentralisation from large to small firms : a preliminary analysis of subcontracting
  • Work decentralisation from large to small firms : a preliminary analysis of subcontracting
Regional patterns of small firm development in the business services : evidence from the United Kingdom
  • Regional patterns of small firm development in the business services : evidence from the United Kingdom
  • Customers ; Economic environment ; Employment ; Enquiry ; Enterprise;Firm ; Expertise ; Market ; Producer services ; Service ; Small firm ; United Kingdom
  • Reports the results of an intensive questionnaire survey of a sample of small management consultancy and market research companies in three areas; inner London, the outer south east, and north west England. In interpreting the demand and supply
  • characteristics of these firms, emphasis is placed on their interactions with the internal labour market strategies of predominantly large client organisations.
Spatial responsiveness of small firms
  • Spatial responsiveness of small firms
  • Economic environment ; Economic space ; Enquiry ; Enterprise;Firm ; Firm strategy ; Innovation ; Market ; Netherlands (The) ; Small firm
Population synthesis : comparing the major techniques using a small, complete population of firms
  • Population synthesis : comparing the major techniques using a small, complete population of firms
  • Firm ; Methodology ; Spatial distribution ; Statistics
  • a known population of firms. Testing synthetic population against a known population is seldom done. The case presented here uses a small, complete population of firms for the City of Hamilton, Ontario.
Small manufacturing firm business services externalization in the Chicago metropolitan region
  • Small manufacturing firm business services externalization in the Chicago metropolitan region
  • Chicago ; Employment ; Enterprise;Firm ; Firm strategy ; Illinois ; Model ; Producer services ; Service ; Structure of the firm ; Sub-contracting ; United States
  • Etude de l'extériorisation des services à la production de la part des entreprises industrielles. Elle apparaît étroitement liée à la désintégration verticale des firmes. Une enquête effectuée dans la région de Chicago vient étayer la démonstration
New firms, small firms and dead firms: spatial patterns and determinants in the United Kingdom
  • New firms, small firms and dead firms: spatial patterns and determinants in the United Kingdom
  • Regional variations in new firm formation
  • Econometric model ; Enterprise ; Enterprise creation ; Multivariate analysis ; Regional disparities ; Small firm ; Spatial variation ; United Kingdom
New and small firms in the U.K.: an analysis of the policy process
  • New and small firms in the U.K.: an analysis of the policy process
Small firms
  • Small firms
Business networks outside an industrial district
  • Economic environment ; Enterprise ; Innovation ; Network ; New Zealand ; Partnership ; Small firm ; Urban economy
  • This paper reports New Zealand evidence from a survey of small-firm network behaviour and the impact of an intermediary agency in seeking to assist network development. Small businesses engage in various types of networking including information
  • sharing, resource sharing and subcontracting. There is little evidence of deliberate strategy about networking. Network promotion is isentified as a way of assisting small-firm development.
Implications of strategic alliances for small RandD-intensive firms
  • Implications of strategic alliances for small RandD-intensive firms
  • Canada ; Competitiveness ; Economic cooperation ; Economic efficiency ; Economic environment ; Enterprise ; Firm strategy ; Flexibility ; Research and development ; Small firm ; Technological innovation
Large-small firm networks : a foundation of the new globalizing economy in South Korea
  • Large-small firm networks : a foundation of the new globalizing economy in South Korea
  • Economic restructuring ; Economy ; Enterprise ; Exporting industry ; Firm size ; Globalization ; Network ; South Korea ; Sub-contracting
  • The A. examines how Korea's export-oriented economy has laid its new foundation for global competitiveness by deepening interfirm linkages. They refer mainly to the relationship between large and small firms. Recent corporate restructuring has
On the impact of competition on trade and firm location
  • On the impact of competition on trade and firm location
  • Capital ; Competition ; Competitiveness ; Economic geography ; Export ; Firm ; Firm strategy ; International trade ; Local market ; Location
  • margins of exports, it investigates how the intensity of trade reacts to the degree of competitiveness. Furthermore, when firms are free to change location, they flow from the small to the large country, and the larger country is always a net exported
  • on the manufactured good. Firms located in the big country have a bigger size than those located in the small one. Under one-way trade, the relocation of firms changes their attitude toward export.
  • This article studies how the level of trade costs and the intensity of competition interact to explain the nature and intensity of trade within a given industry and the location of firms across countries. By exploring the intensive and extensive
Science parks and the co-location of high-tech Small-and Medium-sized firms in China’s Shenzhen
  • Science parks and the co-location of high-tech Small-and Medium-sized firms in China’s Shenzhen
  • China ; Electronics ; Firm ; Guangdong ; Industrial cluster ; Location ; Research and development ; Role of the State ; Science park ; Shenzhen ; Small and medium-sized firms ; Technology ; Urban economy
  • This paper examines the role of science parks (SPs) and the co-location of high-tech Small-and Me-dium-sized firms in China’s Shenzhen. It is found that their locations are determined by hierarchically structured and governed SPs. Moreover
Flexibility in small manufacturing firms and regional industrial formations
  • Flexibility in small manufacturing firms and regional industrial formations
  • Enterprise ; Flexibility ; Industry ; Network ; New York State ; Production ; Small firm ; Technology ; United States
Spatial patterns of production linkages in the context of Europe's small towns : how are rural firms linked to the local economy
  • Spatial patterns of production linkages in the context of Europe's small towns : how are rural firms linked to the local economy
  • Cluster analysis ; Economic integration ; Enterprise ; Europe ; Rural area ; Rural development ; Small town ; Spatial behaviour
  • Le présent article examine le comportement économique spatial de firmes localisées dans 30 petites villes et leur territoire d'influence de 5 pays européens (France, Royaume-Uni, Pays-Bas, Pologne et Portugal).
Collaboration in industry : empirical findings among small electronics manufacturing firms in the Greater Toronto Area
  • Collaboration in industry : empirical findings among small electronics manufacturing firms in the Greater Toronto Area
  • Canada ; Economic cooperation ; Electronics ; Enterprise ; Firm strategy ; Industry ; Ontario ; Research and development ; Small and medium sized enterprises ; Toronto
Re-balancing racial economic power in South Africa : the development of Black small-scale enterprise
  • Re-balancing racial economic power in South Africa : the development of Black small-scale enterprise
  • Blacks ; Economic activity ; Economic sector ; Ethnic group ; Industrial concentration ; Small firm ; South Africa ; Sub-contracting
  • The paper examines the problems and prospects of developing black small-scale enterprise as part of the challenge to re-balance racial economic power in South Africa. Major blocages to black small business development are identified. Policy issues
  • of concern include finance, training and urban planning. Considerable importance is attached to the potential for expanding subcontracting linkages between large and small production enterprises.
Organisational structure and purchasing linkage patterns of manufacturing firms in developing countries : small - and medium - scale firms in metropolitan Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • Organisational structure and purchasing linkage patterns of manufacturing firms in developing countries : small - and medium - scale firms in metropolitan Colombo, Sri Lanka
Geography of outsourcing : business service provisions among firms in Norway
  • Geography of outsourcing : business service provisions among firms in Norway
  • Industry ; Norway ; Producer services ; Proximity ; Research technique ; Service ; Small and medium sized enterprises
  • The paper examines how business service provision partly relies on user firms' internal resources, strategies and location depending on what can be obtained locally or is feasible to import elsewhere. Empirical evidence from small- and medium-sized
  • firms in three manufacturing industries in Norway shows that strategies searching for suitable suppliers can be divided into different categories.
Industrial restructuring and the future of the small firm : the case of Canadian microbreweries
  • Industrial restructuring and the future of the small firm : the case of Canadian microbreweries
  • Canada ; Competition ; Enterprise;Firm ; Firm strategy ; Industrial branch ; Industrial organization ; Industrial restructuring ; Industry ; Production ; Small firm