Industry diversity, competition and firm relatedness: the impact on employment before and after the 2008 global financial crisis

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作者
Wang, Cong [1 ,2 ]
Madsen, Jakob B. [3 ]
Steiner, Bodo [4 ,5 ]
机构
[1] Bond Univ, Bond Business Sch, Robina, Qld, Australia
[2] Univ Southern Denmark, Dept Business & Econ, Sonderborg, Denmark
[3] Monash Univ, Dept Econ, Clayton, Vic, Australia
[4] Univ Southern Denmark, Dept Entrepreneurship & Relationship Management, Sonderborg, Denmark
[5] Univ Alberta, Dept Resource Econ & Environm Sociol, Edmonton, AB, Canada
关键词
external-scale economies; employment growth; entropy of variety; firms; Canada; GROWTH; INNOVATIONS; PERFORMANCE; GEOGRAPHY;
D O I
10.1080/00343404.2016.1254766
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Industry diversity, competition and firm relatedness: the impact on employment before and after the 2008 global financial crisis. Regional Studies. This study investigates the extent to which indicators of external-scale economies impacted employment growth in Canada over the period 2004-11. It focuses on knowledge spillovers between firms while accounting for Marshallian specialization, Jacobs' diversity and competition by industry, as well as related and unrelated firm varieties in terms of employment and sales. It is found that the employment growth effects of local competition and diversity are positive, while the effect of Marshallian specialization is negative. Diversification is found to be particularly important for employment growth during the global financial crisis and immediately thereafter.
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页码:1801 / 1814
页数:14
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