It is often assumed that future urban employment will be increasingly dependent on the
knowledge‐intensive business services (KIBS). This underpins much of the current thinking …

WERNERHEIM CM and SHARPE CA (2003)'High order''producer services in metropolitan
Canada: how footloose are they?, Reg. Studies 37, 469–490. This paper builds on the …

This paper examines how business service provision partly relies on user firms' internal
resources, strategies and location depending on what can be obtained locally or is feasible …

It is approaching 20 years since Walker's (1985) excoriating analysis of the, so-called,
service society. At the time, it was increasingly becoming the accepted truth that services …

This article makes an analysis in the mechanism that how producer service promotes the
added value of manufacturing industries. Producer service is regarded as an important …

Cites and city systems across the post-socialist states are experiencing a range of
restructuring trends. This plurality broadly expresses the varied national, regional, and place …

This article investigates the growth of business services (SIC73) in Michigan and models the
relationship between the industry and local economic conditions in metropolitan and …

This article examines the location pattern and role of advanced producer services outside
the metropolitan core. Will such services migrate to and stay in peripheral regions and boost …

Footloose information technology producer services are increasingly viewed as the new
engines of regional growth and employment creation. The claim is often that appropriate …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the spatial concentration of producer services in
Seoul and the distribution characteristics of the concentration index in 1995, 2000 and 2005 …