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examine knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) industries' spatial concentration patterns and geographical concentration … concentration effect varies in rural and urban areas. Further, empirical results reveal that KIBS industries are localized in rural … suggest that urban planners and district municipal authorities can give more emphasis and implement suitable KIBS industry …
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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...
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There is an intrinsic link between the success of service firms and the availability of appropriate labor resources, making employee attraction and retention a critical concern for service organizations. Effects of recruitment efforts are influenced by applicants' subjective person-environment...
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During 20th century principles of the work division were used in the business activities of the companies. These principles took advantage of the knowledge of scientific management production. These principles were also transferred to the management sphere itself. The principles worked and...
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The first step in starting each production is the choice of suppliers. The choice of suppliers is influenced by many factors that differ depending on whether it is the first relationship with suppliers or it is about establishing partnerships with suppliers. Factors influencing selection are...
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The purpose of this paper is to appoint the causality between economic activity in the sector of distributive trade and the economic growth of 28 European Union nations. Specifically, it examines the impact of changes in turnover per employee in the distributive trade sector in EU member states...
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This article investigated the service sector linkages with agriculture and industrial sectors with the purpose of ascertaining if forward and backward causal-chain exists, and the direction of causation among these sectors. The study was prompted by obvious evidence that sectoral contributions...
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This paper aims to contrast the spillover effects in business failure derived from the geographic proximity among firms of the same sector. To get this purpose, we develop an empirical application based on the analysis of the join-count statistics on a sample of firms of service sector located...
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