TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nelson,Marla
TI  - Rethinking agglomeration economies and the role of the central city: The public accounting industry in Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul
SN  - 0739456X
AV  - NA9000 JOU 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Thousand Oaks
PB  - ACSP
KW  - Agglomeration economies
KW  - Intrametropolitan location
KW  - Public accounting
N2  - This article investigates the unique locational attributes central cities are purported to have and the importance of agglomeration economies in intra-metropolitan site selection via a locational analysis of the public accounting industry in the Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul regions. Relying on data from a telephone survey of public accounting offices and interviews with public accounting executives and industry experts, findings suggest that the agglomeration argument has been overstated in explaining the industry’s location and that the traditional conception of agglomeration economies as confined to the urban core is spatially restrictive
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X04270128
ER  -