De l’importance de la proximité dans la capacité de résister aux chocs exogènes. Une analyse de survie d’entreprise durant la Grande Récession dans la région périphérique du Bas-Saint-Laurent, Canada

Cédric Brunelle and Jean Dubé

Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine, 2018, vol. Décembre, issue 5, 1155-1185

Abstract: This article analyzes the impacts of spatial externalities and geographic proximity on the ability to resist exogenous shocks over time, based on an empirical study of the survival of individual firms in the peripheral Lower-St.-Lawrence region (Canada) between 2006 and 2011. While traditional spatial externalities offer weak evidence, our results show that the proximity of a variety of related industries as well as the local density of forward and backward linkages increase the survival of firms during the period. However, these effects are not uniform across space. Geographic proximity also plays an essential role in the ability to resist shocks. Our results reveal that the spatial distribution of firms, even at small spatial scales and in low-density regions, structures a variety of localized linkages and proximity relations that play a significant role on firms? capacity to resist economic shocks.

Keywords: exogenous shocks; firm survival; proximity; related variety; resilience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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