Entrepreneurs and cities: Complexity, thickness and balance.

Autor/inn/en	Helsley, Robert W.; Strange, William C.
Titel	Entrepreneurs and cities: Complexity, thickness and balance. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Unternehmer und Städte. Komplexität, Dichte und Gleichgewicht.
Quelle	In: Regional science & urban economics, 41 (2011) 6, S. 550-559 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0166-0462; 1879-2308
DOI	10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2011.04.001
Schlagwörter	Ballungsraum; Regionalentwicklung; Determinante; Industrie; Unternehmen; Unternehmensgründung; Wirtschaftsgeografie; Arbeitskräfteangebot; Qualifikationsstruktur; Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt; Unternehmer; Regionaler Faktor; Standortfaktor; Struktur; Theorie
Abstract	"It is well established that the thickness of local markets can enhance entrepreneurial activity (Vernon (1960)). It has been more recently established that because they carry out so many different tasks, a balance of skills may be beneficial to entrepreneurs (Lazear (2004, 2005)). This paper unifies these approaches to agglomeration and entrepreneurship. The paper's model of multidimensional task completion generates several interesting results. First, agglomeration economies arising from market thickness are reflected in shorter completion times. Second, complex projects that are infeasible in small cities may be feasible in large cities, where adaptation costs and completion times are lower. Third, it may be possible for less balanced entrepreneurs to manage successfully in large cities by substituting local market thickness for a balance of skills. Fourth, the Lazear result on the balance of entrepreneurs is shown to be related to Jacobs' (1969) classic result on urban diversity (city balance). Both are special cases of a more general sort of balance." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku). Forschungsmethode: Theoriebildung; Grundlagenforschung.
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2012/2