Wissensmanagement in Private Equity-Netzwerken und die Rolle regionaler Finanzzentren

关于金融部门的地域组织如何影响提供资金，特别是向中小企业提供资金，从而影响区域发展的问题，一直在进行辩论。该研究项目将从区域和国际比较的角度探讨金融服务提供者管理知识和风险的方式，从而探索这一问题的新视角。我们的假设是，这种以地理为导向的“知识视角”有助于更好地理解中小企业融资中有时相互矛盾的趋势。我们希望通过研究私募股权（PE）业务中的知识管理来探索这一新视角。对私人股本生产链的分析表明，私人股本公司的战略整合了各种行为者，并依赖于与服务供应商和更广泛的网络进行知识交流，以减少投资风险。本项目将分析这些体育知识网络及其地理范围。这项研究的地理方面特别令人感兴趣。私募股权投资公司表现出分散的位置模式，集中在区域金融中心。这些传统上是该地区金融专业知识的所在地，但由于集中和集中化进程而失去了重要性。我们的实证研究将分析如何PE（再）刺激这些中心的地方为基础的动态和PE知识管理连接和整合区域和超区域网络的方式。通过比较德国、法国和英国的五个区域金融中心以及私募股权知识网络，我们采用区域和国际比较的视角，从而兼顾区域背景和国家机构在金融领域的重要性。我们的研究将（1）支持更好地理解区域金融中心在不同国家和地区背景下对中小企业融资的作用，从而为区域政策提供投入，（2）为不同地理范围的重叠网络中的知识管理文献做出贡献。

There has been an ongoing debate on how the geographical organization of the financial sector has an impact on the provision of finance, especially to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and thus on regional development. The research project will explore a fresh perspective on this issue by looking at the ways in which financial service providers manage knowledge and risk in a regionally and internationally comparative perspective. It is our assumption that this geographically oriented “knowledge perspective” helps to better understand the sometimes contradicting trends in SME finance. We want to explore this new perspective by examining knowledge management in the private equity (PE) business. An analysis of the PE production chain shows that PE firms’ strategies integrate various actors and rely on the exchange of knowledge with service suppliers and in wider networks in order to reduce investment risk. The project will analyze these PE knowledge networks and their geographical scope. The geographical dimension of this research is of particular interest. PE firms exhibit a decentralized location pattern with concentrations in regional financial centers. These have traditionally been the locus of financial expertise in the regions, but lost in significance due to concentration and centralization processes. Our empirical research will analyze how PE (re)stimulates place-based dynamics in these centers and the ways in which PE knowledge management connects and integrates regional and supraregional networks. By comparing five regional financial centers as well as PE knowledge networks in Germany, France and the United Kingdom, we adopt a regionally and internationally comparative perspective, thus taking into account both regional context and the importance of national institutions in finance. Our research will (1) support a better understanding of the role of regional financial centers for SME finance in different national and regional contexts and thus provide inputs for regional policy, and (2) contribute to the literature on knowledge management in overlapping networks of varying geographical scopes.