Agents of Structural Change: The Role of Firms and Entrepreneurs in Regional Diversification
Agents of Structural Change: The Role of Firms and Entrepreneurs in Regional Diversification
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DOI：
10.1080/00130095.2017.1391691
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发表时间：
2018-01
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7
通讯作者：
Frank M. H. Neffke;M. Hartog;Ron Boschma;Martin Henning
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作者：
Frank M. H. Neffke;M. Hartog;Ron Boschma;Martin Henning
谁在区域经济中引入结构性变革：企业家还是现有企业？本地或非本地企业创始人是否在一个地区创造了最多的新奇？我们开发了一个理论框架，侧重于不同的代理人在区域转型中发挥的作用。然后，我们应用这个框架，使用瑞典匹配的雇主-雇员数据，以确定如何新的活动的新机构是一个地区。现有企业主要加强了一个地区当前的专业化：现有企业的增长、衰退和行业转换进一步使它们与当地经济的其他部分保持一致。结构改革所需的不相关的多样化主要是通过新的机构，特别是通过那些非本地的根源。有趣的是，尽管企业家经常为当地经济引入新的活动，但当他们这样做时，与现有公司的新子公司相比，他们的企业失败率更高。因此，新的子公司设法在地区创造更持久的变化。
abstract Who introduces structural change in regional economies: Entrepreneurs or existing firms? And do local or nonlocal establishment founders create most novelty in a region? We develop a theoretical framework that focuses on the roles different agents play in regional transformation. We then apply this framework, using Swedish matched employer–employee data, to determine how novel the activities of new establishments are to a region. Incumbents mainly reinforce a region’s current specialization: incumbent’s growth, decline, and industry switching further align them with the rest of the local economy. The unrelated diversification required for structural change mostly originates via new establishments, especially via those with nonlocal roots. Interestingly, although entrepreneurs often introduce novel activities to a local economy, when they do so, their ventures have higher failure rates compared to new subsidiaries of existing firms. Consequently, new subsidiaries manage to create longer-lasting change in regions.