• Media type: Electronic Conference Proceeding
  • Title: A Relational Account of the Causes of Spatial Firm Mobility
  • Contributor: Knoben, Joris [Author]
  • Published: Louvain-la-Neuve: European Regional Science Association (ERSA), 2006
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: spatial inertia ; R23 ; Firm relocation ; spatial lock-in ; inter-organizational relationships ; R12 ; propensity to relocate ; L14 ; embeddedness ; spatial mobility
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  • Description: The existing literature on the spatial mobility of firms completely neglects the existence of inter-organizational relations (IORs). This is striking since there is a strong theoretical argument in the literature that firms with a high level of embeddedness in (localized) IORs are very unlikely to relocate. Therefore, the following research question is posed: “To what extent is the level of embeddedness of firms in (localized) innovative inter-organizational relationships of influence on their propensity to relocate?” Based on ordered logit model it is shown empirically that there is a strong spatial lock-in effect of having a high degree centrality.
  • Access State: Open Access