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Weighting Ripley’s K-function to account for the firm dimension in the analysis of spatial concentration
Espa, Giuseppe; Giuliani, Diego; Arbia, Giuseppe - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2010
The spatial concentration of firms has long been a central issue in economics both under the theoretical and the applied point of view due mainly to the important policy implications. A popular approach to its measurement, which does not suffer from the problem of the arbitrariness of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677654
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Agglomeration, related-variety and internationalisation. Does a relationship exist?
Cainelli, Giulio; Maria, Eleonora Di; Ganau, Roberto - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2011
different types of agglomeration externalities affect firms’ internationalisation modes. In addition to specialisation … between related and unrelated variety. Econometric results show that agglomeration externalities – in particular …, results show that the impact of agglomeration externalities on firms’ internationalisation decisions is higher for small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009415400
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A class of spatial econometric methods in the empirical analysis of clusters of firms in the space
Arbia, Giuseppe; Espa, Giuseppe; Quah, Danny - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2007
In this paper we aim at identifying stylized facts in order to suggest adequate models of spatial co–agglomeration of … for bivariate (rather than univariate) distributions, which allows uncovering co–agglomeration and repulsion phenomena …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005187087
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Clusters of firms in space and time
Arbia, Giuseppe; Espa, Giuseppe; Giuliani, Diego; … - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2009
) we used Ripley’s K-functions as instruments to study the inter-sectoral co-agglomeration pattern of firms in a single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005121064
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Agglomeration, related variety and vertical integration
Cainelli, Giulio; Iacobucci, Donato - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2011
, based on the hypothesis that spatial agglomeration of firms in the same industry facilitates input procurement thereby … investigate the influence of vertically related variety and other agglomeration forces on the degree of vertical integration of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320199
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A spatial analysis of health and pharmaceutical firm survival
Arbia, Giuseppe; Espa, Giuseppe; Giuliani, Diego; … - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2015
, somewhat surprisingly, while concentrating on the effects of agglomeration on firm creation and growth, the literature has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272193
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Efficiency or Bounded Rationality? Drivers of Firm Diversification Strategies in Vietnam
Tran, Hien Thu; Santarelli, Enrico; Zaninotto, Enrico - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2014
Considering the case of diversified firms within a transition country such as Vietnam, this paper investigates diversification relatedness taking into account both firm-specific and industry-level components. Two measures of relatedness, the survivor-based and the SIC distances approach, are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010766398
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A “Human Growth” Perspective on Organizational Resources and Firm Performance
Sacchetti, Silvia; Tortia, Ermanno C. - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2012
We define immaterial satisfaction as the degree of wellbeing that workers derive from creativity, autonomy, and personal growth, overall self-fulfillment. These are dimensions of satisfaction that we relate, from American pragmatism, to the use of creative intelligence. The paper deals with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079823
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Reassessing the spatial determinants of the growth of Italian SMEs
Gabriele, Roberto; Giuliani, Diego; Corsino, Marco; … - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2013
The paper proposes a novel methodology to assess the role of “location” in shaping firm growth. Along with traditional determinants (e.g., age, size and financial constraints), geographical location is alleged to drive firm growth. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272184
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Where Gibrat meets Zipf: Scale and Scope of French Firms
Bee, MArco; Riccaboni, Massimo; Schiavo, Stefano - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2014
The proper characterization of the size distribution of business firms represents an important issue in economic literature, with the most common reference distribu- tions being the lognormal and the Pareto varieties. This analysis is related to some methodological issues that are rarely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272191