• 지역연구
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.123-147
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• 1990

This paper examines the changing geography of producer service industries in the 1980s. The foci of this study are to analyze the regional distribution of each producer services, and to reveal the spatial linkage of producer services. Further this paper asserts the potential role of producer services for reducing the potential endogenous development in the periphery. During the 1981-86 period, producer service industries grew more rapidly than other service sectors and manufacturing sector. The main reason of the raid growth of producer services is attributable to an increase in demand for intermediate services from manufacturing firms. In order to compete an increasingly complex business environment, firms have expanded the amount of effort devoted to activities such as planning, coordination and control, and consequently have increased their use of producer services. The most distinctive feature of the location of producer services is spatial concentration into Seoul and surrounding region. Especially the degree of the concentration o business services into the Capital Region has been accelerating during the 1990s. The pattern of employment growth and regional distribution of producer services show a clear core / periphery disparity. Much of the regional inequality in producer services is largely due to variation in demand associated with the pattern of corporation headquarters with the pattern of corporation headquarters and branch plants location with large manufacturing firms. The analysis of spatial division of labor reflects that producer services are related to the location of headquarters in manufacturing industry. Headquarters in manufacturing firms and business service firms tend to cluster each other. Most of the headquarters spatially separated from branch offices are clustered heavily in Seoul. Especially headquarters of business services and insurance services are overwhelmingly concentrated into Seoul. The firms whose headquarters are located in Seoul have a linkage pattern on a nationwide scale. It is viewed have little potential for generating local multiplier effects and regional development. In the light of the result of this study, producer services are not likely to disperse soon to peripheral regions. Consequently the absence of policies directed at enhancing producer sevice in the periphery, concentration tendency would continue to reinforce the core's dominance at the expense of peripheral regions. From a regional perspective, the quality of a region's producer service sector is a key determinant of economic growth, since manu industrial location decisions are influenced by the differential availability of producer services among regions. Poor performance of producer services in peripheral regions seemed to be linked to the region's manufacturing base. Low-wage, standardized branch plants are not likely to induce the growth in knowledge intensive services associated with high-technology corporate headquarters. Producer services may help to create and attract new business including manufacturing firms, and also to enhance the productivity and competitiveness of local firms. Therefore the provision of service producing activities would be lead not only to generate and retain endogenous development but also to attract external firms, especially small and medium sized firms which have a lower propensity of internalized services. Hence, it may be more efficient to create and expanse new locally owned producer services rather than to attract branch plants of mult-locational firms in order to make indigenous economic development.

• 한국경제지리학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.33-56
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• 1998

본 연구는 서비스 경제화 추세가 진전되면서 공간에 어떠한 변용을 가져오고 있는가를 고찰하였다. 경제의 서비스화가 진전되면서 서비스업에 대한 수요와 공급의 공간적 패턴은 상당한 차이를 나타내고 있으며, 이에 따른 차별적인 서비스업의 성장과 그에 따른 입지는 공간구조에 커다란 영향을 미치고 있다. 지난 15년간 가장 높은 성장률을 보이고 있는 서비스업종은 생산활동과 연계가 깊은 생산자서비스업으로, 이 업종은 서울을 중심으로 한 수도권으로 집중하는 경향을 보이고 있다. 본사기능이 주로 집적되어 있는 핵심지역이 기술, 정보, 지식 집약적인 생산자서비스에 대한 수요가 상대적으로 높기 때문에 이들 지역으로 생산자서비스업체들이 집중하고 있다고 볼 수 있다. 앞으로 서울을 세계 대도시들 속에서 경쟁력있는 도시로 성장시키기 위해서는 고차적 생산자서비스업을 육성시키는 것이 바람직하지만 다른 지역들과의 성장격차를 심화시키지 않는 방안이 강구되어야 할 것이다.