Degree of technological relatedness, firm heterogeneity, and survival condition: Evidence from emerging high-tech firms in the Pearl River Delta, China

IF 6.5 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI:10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103378

Jili Xu , Dong Li , Anthony G.O. Yeh , Shengjun Zhu

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Abstract

This study argues for nonlinear relationships between relatedness and survival conditions of emerging high-tech firms in regions by operationalizing the degree of technological relatedness (TR) as a mixture of relatedness and unrelatedness. It further examines how micro-level firm heterogeneity with regional embeddedness mediates the role of the meso-level degree of TR, with evidence from emerging high-tech firms in the Pearl River Delta, China. It identifies a threshold for the role of the degree of TR and an inverted U-curve manifesting beyond the threshold point. The investigation particularly elucidates the mediating mechanisms through firm heterogeneity with regional embeddedness across the aspects of entrepreneurial condition, employment size, industrial chain segment, and industrial life cycle. This study contributes to evolutionary economic geography by embedding intra-firm capabilities as micro-foundations into meso-level relatedness and regional structural architectures.

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Habitat International Multiple-

CiteScore

10.50

自引率

10.30%

发文量

151

审稿时长

38 days

期刊介绍： Habitat International is dedicated to the study of urban and rural human settlements: their planning, design, production and management. Its main focus is on urbanisation in its broadest sense in the developing world. However, increasingly the interrelationships and linkages between cities and towns in the developing and developed worlds are becoming apparent and solutions to the problems that result are urgently required. The economic, social, technological and political systems of the world are intertwined and changes in one region almost always affect other regions.