Producer Services Development Processes

生产者或中间业务服务部门 在过去的就业增长方面， 20年来，这一趋势预计将持续到2020年。 可预见的未来 在国家一级，以前的研究已经 提供了关于就业总体空间格局的见解 生产者服务业的变化，但在一级工作， 缺乏个别机构。 点资讯 生产者服务企业如何在这一领域发展 全面快速增长时期。 目前的理论模型 企业动态来自对制造业部门的研究， 经济;缺乏研究表明是否 生产者服务业的行为与 工业企业。 该项目将测试一些理论 为解释这些服务的增长而提出的假设 通过对地理和工业的调查研究， 企业的差异化样本。 它将试图 阐明外部化过程的相对重要性， 公司内部不断变化的劳动分工， 技术在提供服务的模式，审查的作用 信息技术，分析灵活性的本质 生产系统，并解释在位置的变化， 服务是出售的。 大多数关于城市结构调整的空间方面的研究， 美国经济集中在工业部门。 这 调查将提供急需的测试电流 关于发展基础的理论争论 生产性服务业。 它将提供基本的知识， 在公司层面的发展过程中，它将 有助于制定必要的区位理论， 服务业。 该项目的成果还将 向公共政策通报服务的可行性， 承包资源型工业的替代品， 和外围位置。

The producer, or intermediate business, services sector has been one of the most dynamic in terms of job growth over the past twenty years, and this trend is expected to continue into the foreseeable future. At a national level, previous research has provided insights into aggregate spatial patterns of employment change in the producer services, but work at the level of individual establishments has been lacking. Little information exists on how producer services firms have developed in this period of rapid overall growth. Current theoretical models of firm dynamics derive from research on manufacturing sectors of the economy; there is a paucity of research to indicate whether the producer services behave differently or the same as industrial firms. This project will test a number of theoretical hypotheses put forward to explain the growth of these services through survey research on a geographically and industrially differentiated sample of establishments. It will attempt to clarify the relative importance of externalization processes and the changing division of labor within firms, document changes in technology in the mode of provision of services, examine the role of information technologies, analyze the nature of flexible production systems, and explain changes in the locations where services are sold. Most research on spatial aspects of the restructuring of the US economy have concentrated on industrial sectors. This investigation would provide badly needed tests of current theoretical arguments regarding the bases of development of producer services. It would provide basic knowledge of development processes at the level of the firm, and it would contribute to formulation of necessary location theory related to services industries. The results of this project would also inform public policy regarding the feasibility of services as substitutes for contracting resource-based industry in smaller and peripheral locations.