Producer Services Growth and the Development of Corporate Complex Networks in U.S. Metropolitan Regions

美国大都市地区生产性服务业的增长和企业综合网络的发展

• 批准号: 9309357
• 负责人: W Goe
• 金额: $ 2.69万
• 依托单位: Kansas State University
• 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: 1993-07-01 至 1997-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9309357&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Producer; Services; Growth; Development; Corporate

One of the most important dimensions of the recent transformation to a service economy within the United States has been the growth of producer-service industries, firms that provide products and services to business firms and other organizations, such as government agencies. From 1980 to 1988, these firms accounted for roughly one-third of all new jobs established in the nation. The growth of these firms has substantially altered the ways that American businesses organize production. Most producer-services firms locate in metropolitan areas and become parts of complex corporate networks, which usually consist of headquarters hubs linked to producer-service firms. This project will expand knowledge about the spatial and social structures of these complex corporate networks in metropolitan areas of the U.S. through in-depth case studies of four networks, two in manufacturing and two in services. Personal interviews will be conducted with officials in both contracting companies and producer-service contractors in the Akron, Cleveland, Kansas City, and San Francisco metropolitan areas. Special attention will focus on identification of the reasons why U.S. corporations have turned to outside contractors for the provision of producer services, how externalization of producer services has been related to broader forms of industrial organization, what social relations underlie market relationships between firms and producer-service providers, how forms of producer-service externalization vary among different types of industries, how corporate complexes have been spatially restructured, and what factors contribute to these spatial shifts. Data from these interviews will be used to form and test hypotheses about the spatial and social structure of industrial organization. They also will facilitate the development of a theoretical model of producer-service externalization, which will be tested in subsequent studies. This project will help fill important gaps in knowledge about the dramatic restructuring of American industry, especially the growth of producer-service firms and their operation within complex corporate networks. The data collected in interviews with both suppliers and users of producer services will test a number of important hypotheses, and they will assist in development of more general models of industrial organization.

美国最近向服务经济转型的最重要方面之一是生产性服务业、向商业公司和其他组织（例如政府机构）提供产品和服务的公司的增长。 从 1980 年到 1988 年，这些公司约占全国新增就业岗位的三分之一。 这些公司的发展极大地改变了美国企业组织生产的方式。 大多数生产性服务公司位于大都市地区，并成为复杂企业网络的一部分，该网络通常由与生产性服务公司相连的总部中心组成。 该项目将通过对四个网络（两个制造业网络和两个服务业网络）的深入案例研究，扩展对美国大都市区这些复杂企业网络的空间和社会结构的了解。 将对阿克伦、克利夫兰、堪萨斯城和旧金山大都市区的承包公司和生产性服务承包商的官员进行个人访谈。 将特别关注确定美国企业转向外部承包商提供生产性服务的原因、生产性服务外部化如何与更广泛的产业组织形式相关、企业与生产性服务提供者之间的市场关系背后的社会关系是什么、不同类型行业之间生产性服务外部化的形式如何变化、企业综合体如何进行空间重组以及哪些因素促成了这些空间转变。 这些访谈的数据将用于形成和检验有关产业组织的空间和社会结构的假设。 它们还将促进生产性服务外部化理论模型的发展，并将在后续研究中进行测试。 该项目将有助于填补有关美国工业急剧重组的重要知识空白，特别是生产性服务公司的增长及其在复杂企业网络中的运营。 通过采访生产性服务业的供应商和用户收集的数据将检验许多重要的假设，并将有助于开发更通用的产业组织模型。