Why do business service firms cluster? Small consultancies, clustering and decentralization in London and southern England

By D. Keeble, Lilach Nachum. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, Urban Studies

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Competition and Cooperation in Industrial Clusters: The Implications for Public Policy (2003, background): “This is the hypothesis advanced by Keeble and Nachum (2001) in their comparison of the economic performance of business service firms in a central London cluster with those in dispersed locations in East Anglia and south-west England.”
In what sense ‘regional development?’: entrepreneurship, underdevelopment and strong tradition in the periphery (2004, background): “…tend to be characterized in negative ways in regional development analyses – lifestyle, dead-end, hobby, satisficing (Coe and Townsend 1998, Keeble and Nachum 2002), hiding that many firms did not use ‘traditional’ technologies, but high technology fields such as electronic controls,…”
Micro-geographies of creative industries clusters in Europe: From hot spots to assemblages (2015, unknown): “Keeble & Nachum (2002) and Cuadrado-Roura (2013) have noted that the clustering of KIBS, particularly in large cities, is determined by specific factors such as: access to skilled staff; access to localized and relatively immobile tacit knowledge; access to knowledge spillovers; the presence of…”
Regional innovation systems: Current discourse and unresolved issues (2005, background): “Examples include the Garment District in New York [72], the software industry in Oslo [49], the electronic cluster in Toronto [73], the media industry in Montreal [74], and the service industry in London [75].”
Deconstructing clusters: chaotic concept or policy panacea? (2003, background): “Why have some economic geographers themselves started to use cluster terminology in preference to their own (for example, Pinch and Henry, 1999; May, Mason and Pinch, 2001; Scott, 2001; Keeble and Wilkinson, 2000; Keeble and Nachum, 2002)?”
Knowledge Intensive Business Services and Urban Industrial Development (2007, background): “Demand side factors are therefore important in explaining the concentration of the software industry and organisational consultancies in the Oslo region [cf. Keeble and Nachum, 2002]; KIBS firms grow and stay near their largest market.”