Do Capabilities Reside in Firms or in Regions? Analysis of Related Diversification in Chinese Knowledge Production

IF 7.2 1区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Economic Geography Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI:10.1080/00130095.2021.1977115

Yiou Zhang, D. Rigby

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Abstract

abstract Do capabilities reside in firms, in regions, or in both? Within economic geography, most contemporary research on diversification examines how local structures condition regional development possibilities. The underlying logic is that capabilities are generated within regions and sometimes shared between them. We challenge that logic, exploring whether capabilities are more likely to emerge within the firm and to flow across spatial boundaries than they are to be built within the region flowing across firm boundaries. Analysis focuses on technological diversification within the establishments of multilocational firms operating across Chinese cities. Overall, the results demonstrate that the knowledge structure of firms is more important than the knowledge structure of cities in shaping diversification within establishments. We show that rates of technological diversification vary according to plant status (headquarters or not), location (core or peripheral city), and on whether plants are introducing more or less complex knowledge. The influence of plant, firm, and regional characteristics on diversification vary markedly across the analytical samples examined.

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能力存在于企业还是区域？中国知识生产的相关多元化分析

抽象能力存在于企业、地区还是两者之中？在经济地理学中，大多数当代关于多样化的研究都考察了地方结构如何制约区域发展的可能性。基本逻辑是，能力是在区域内生成的，有时在区域之间共享。我们挑战这一逻辑，探索能力是否更有可能在公司内部出现，并跨越空间边界流动，而不是在跨越公司边界的区域内建立。分析的重点是在中国城市经营的多行业公司的机构内的技术多样化。总体而言，研究结果表明，在形成企业多元化方面，企业的知识结构比城市的知识结构更重要。我们发现，技术多样化的速度因工厂状态（总部与否）、位置（核心或外围城市）以及工厂是否引入了更多或更少的复杂知识而不同。工厂、企业和地区特征对多样化的影响在所检查的分析样本中差异显著。

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