Kopczewska Katarzyna, Kubara Maria, Kopyt Mateusz
Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, Ul. Dluga 44/50, 00-241, Warsaw, Poland.
Sci Rep. 2024 Sep 27;14(1):22234. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-73341-8.
Firm location studies traditionally assume that this is business that attracts other business to a given location. They focus on knowledge transfers between the most productive and innovative firms and analyse agglomeration economies arising from matching, learning and sharing mechanisms. We argue that the population density also attracts firms to the place. Therefore, we extend this stream of research by using the concept of economies of density to discuss the effects of the attraction of firms by population. Our study explores the existence of the hierarchical causal mechanism that occurs when 2nd line firms understood as non-innovative, less productive retail and service businesses together with human settlement create an environment that attracts 1st line firms - the most innovative and productive businesses. We show that population density and business agglomeration jointly affect the location of firms in different sectors and should be considered as complementary rather than substitutable attraction factors.
传统的企业选址研究假定，这类企业会吸引其他企业来到特定地点。它们聚焦于最具生产力和创新性的企业之间的知识转移，并分析由匹配、学习和共享机制所产生的集聚经济。我们认为，人口密度也会吸引企业来到该地。因此，我们通过运用密度经济的概念来扩展这一研究方向，以探讨人口对企业的吸引力所产生的影响。我们的研究探索了一种分层因果机制的存在，即当被视为非创新性、生产力较低的零售和服务企业与人类聚居地共同营造出一种环境，进而吸引一线企业——最具创新性和生产力的企业时，这种机制便会出现。我们表明，人口密度和企业集聚共同影响着不同行业企业的选址，并且应被视为互补而非可替代的吸引因素。
