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Merger and acquisition activity as driver of spatial clustering: the spatial evolution of the Dutch banking industry, 1850-1993

Boschma, Ron; Hartog, Matté - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2013

This paper investigates the extent to which merger and acquisition activity contributed to the spatial clustering of the Dutch banking industry in Amsterdam. This analysis is based on a unique database of all banks in the Netherlands that existed in the period 1850-1993. We found that spatial...

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Clustering and firm performance in project-based industries: The case of the global video game industry, 1972-2007

Vaan, Mathijs De; Boschma, Ron; Frenken, Koen - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2012

, negative localization externalities associated with competition grow proportionally with cluster size, while positive … localization externalities increase more than proportionally related to cluster size. By studying the survival patterns of 4 … after a cluster reaches a critical size. We further unravel the subtleties of the video game industry by differentiating …

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Spinoffs and M&A as drivers of spatial clustering: The evolution of the Dutch banking sector in the Amsterdam region in the period 1850-1993

Boschma, Ron; Wenting, Rik - 2010

explain why the Dutch banking cluster clustered in the Amsterdam region. This analysis is based on an unique database of all … for why Amsterdam is the leading banking cluster of the Netherlands. Our analyses demonstrate, among other things, that …

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Merger and acquisition activity as driver of spatial clustering : the spatial evolution of the Dutch banking industry, 1850 - 1993

Boschma, Ron; Hartog, Matté - In: Economic geography 90 (2014) 3, pp. 247-266

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Spinoffs and M&A as drivers of spatial clustering : the evolution of the Dutch banking sector in the Amsterdam region in the period 1850-1993

Boschma, Ron; Wenting, Rik - 2010

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Agents of structural change : the role of firms and entrepreneurs in regional diversification

Neffke, Frank; Hartog, Matté; Boschma, Ron; Henning, … - In: Economic geography 94 (2018) 1, pp. 23-48

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Neighbor regions as the source of new industries

Boschma, Ron; Martín, Víctor; Minondo, Asier - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2015

of spillovers from neighbor regions for industrial diversification, nor has the role of network linkages between neighbor …

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Institutions and Diversification: Related versus Unrelated Diversification in a Varieties of Capitalism framework

Boschma, Ron; Capone, Gianluca - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2015

The Varieties of Capitalism literature has drawn little attention to industrial renewal and diversification, while the … related diversification literature has neglected the institutional dimension of industrial change. Bringing together both … literatures, the paper proposes that institutions have an impact on the direction of the diversification process, in particular on …

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The emergence of new industries at the regional level in Spain. A proximity approach based on product-relatedness

Boschma, Ron; Minondo, Asier; Navarro, Mikel - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2012

How do regions diversify over time? Inspired by recent studies, we argue that regions diversify into industries that make use of capabilities in which regions are specialized. As the spread of capabilities occurs through mechanisms that have a strong regional bias, we expect that capabilities...

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Agents of structural change. The role of firms and entrepreneurs in regional diversification

Neffke, Frank; Hartog, Matté; Boschma, Ron; Henning, Martin - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2014

Who introduces structural change in regional economies: Entrepreneurs or existing firms? And do local or non-local firms and entrepreneurs create most novelty in a region? Using matched employer-employee data for the whole Swedish workforce, we determine how unrelated and therefore how novel the...

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