This paper examines the effects of specialisation (within-sector clustering) and diversity (between-sector clustering … clusters of business services firms. A standard deviation increase in business services specialisation leads to on average a 40 …, not necessarily business services firms, so diversity is negatively related to location decisions. Almost all firms either …

examining the state of concentration and competition in the domestic banking markets and the role of the regulatory changes and …

migration, diversity, dealing with spatial concentration and the uneven small-scale distribution of populations with a migration … background, and the consideration of integration as a holistic task focused on diversity. The individual discussions include …

Industrial Concentration but only a slight increase in Countries' Specialization in the EU evident over time. Especially, low … technology or labor intensive industries experienced the highest increase in Industrial Concentration. New Trade Theory and New … Economic Geography can explain both Industrial Concentration and Countries' Specialization in the EU best. As regards Countries …

This paper adopts sociometric analysis to explore the process of knowledge acquisition and diffusion in clusters of … firms. By comparing the knowledge systems of two clusters selected for being at different stages of their development path … across and within clusters and the impact of this latter variable on the degree of intra- and extra-cluster connectivity is …