Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Spatial Dynamics of the U.S. Investment - Management Industry

博士论文研究：美国投资的空间动态——管理行业

• 批准号: 9305714
• 负责人: Rodney Erickson
• 金额: $ 0.49万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-09-15 至 1995-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9305714&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Spatial; Dynamics

9305714 ERICKSON The tremendous growth of producer-services employment in the United States in the last few decades has resulted in a proliferation of research on the location of producer-service activities. General theories of producer-services locations have been evolving, with special attention in recent years given to two divergent perspectives regarding the relative importance and impact of factors like market size, agglomeration economies, labor costs and quality, infrastructure, and amenities. One perspective holds that the knowledge-intensive nature of many producer services requires frequent face-to-face contact and sophisticated telecommunications equipment usually found in higher-density urban concentrations. The other perspective posits that producer services follow firms in the goods-producing sector and gravitate to lower-cost sites outside higher-ordered urban centers. This doctoral dissertation project will examine the spatial dynamics over the last decade of one set of firms, the U.S. investment-management industry. Special attention will be given to examining the spatial distribution of firms and their assets, to assessing the impact of communications and information- handling technologies on locational tendencies, and to identifying the factors that account for the location of different types of firms. Both primary and secondary data will be used to examine the pattern and structure of investment- management industry location in 1983, 1987, 1990, and 1993, and a mail questionnaire will elicit from leaders of firms factors that influence their locational decisions. Follow-up interviews will explore important issues in greater depth, especially the extent to which information transfer via telecommunications links has become a viable substitute for face-to-face communications. This industry-specific research will contribute to the emerging body of knowledge about producer-services location, and it will provide the basis for furthe ring analyses of the impacts of telecommunication technologies and infrastructure on the spatial concentration of financial services. As a doctoral dissertation improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career. ***

9305714 ERICKSON 过去几十年来，美国生产性服务业就业的巨大增长导致了对生产性服务业活动地点的研究激增。 生产性服务业区位的一般理论一直在发展，近年来特别关注关于市场规模、集聚经济、劳动力成本和质量、基础设施和便利设施等因素的相对重要性和影响的两种不同观点。 一种观点认为，许多生产性服务业的知识密集型性质需要频繁的面对面接触和复杂的电信设备，这些设备通常存在于人口密度较高的城市集中区。 另一种观点认为，生产性服务业追随商品生产部门的企业，并被吸引到秩序较高的城市中心之外的低成本地点。 本博士论文项目将研究一组公司（美国投资管理行业）过去十年的空间动态。 将特别关注检查企业及其资产的空间分布，评估通信和信息处理技术对区位趋势的影响，并确定影响不同类型企业区位的因素。 一手数据和二手数据将用于考察 1983 年、1987 年、1990 年和 1993 年投资管理行业选址的模式和结构，并通过邮寄调查问卷向企业领导者收集影响其选址决策的因素。 后续采访将更深入地探讨重要问题，特别是通过电信链路传输信息已在多大程度上成为面对面通信的可行替代品。 这项针对特定行业的研究将有助于形成有关生产性服务业选址的新兴知识体系，并将为进一步分析电信技术和基础设施对金融服务空间集中的影响提供基础。 作为博士论文改进奖，该奖项还将为有前途的学生建立强大的独立研究生涯提供支持。 ***