Although the literature highlights the role of ties with service intermediaries in facilitating firms' search for innovation, the relationship between these ties and exploratory versus exploitative service innovation remains unclear. In line with the innovation search perspective, we combine...

A growing literature employs distance-based measures of localization to assess the spatial distribution of firms with a focus on manufacturing across a country. We analyse the spatial concentration of a variety of consumer services firms in the Phoenix, AZ area using geo-referenced Yelp data...