The Producer Service Complex of Edmonton: The Role and Organization of Producer Services Firms in a Peripheral City

W Z Michalak and K J Fairbairn
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W Z Michalak: University of Plymouth, Department of Geographical Sciences, Plymouth PL4 8AA, England
K J Fairbairn: University of Alberta, Department of Geography, Edmonton, AB T6G 2H4, Canada

Environment and Planning A, 1993, vol. 25, issue 6, 761-777

Abstract: In this paper the authors examine the subcontracting behaviour of producer service firms in a peripheral metropolitan city. The objective of this empirical investigation is to uncover spatial and organizational linkages of producer services that have developed in response to changes in the industrial organization of a modern capitalist production system. The focus is on three types of linkages, namely subcontracting, inputs of producer services, and inputs of goods and final services. The data collected through a survey of producer services in Edmonton reveal that subcontracting rather than internalization is the main mode of production. Therefore the producer service sector can play an important role as a supplier of indigenous higher-order services and innovations, inducing better productivity rates in other industrial sectors including resource-oriented local producers.

Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1068/a250761

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