Regional spread of high-growth enterprises in New Zealand
Robert T. Hamilton & Sara Satterthwaite
Abstract
High-growth enterprises are ascribed a key role in regional development and yet are highly concentrated in core regions. Enterprise-level analysis understates the spread of such firms into peripheral regions. Spatial analysis at the establishment-level reveals the regional spread of high-growth enterprises across New Zealand. The study covers over 28 000 establishments created by the 2005, 2011, and 2014 cohorts of high-growth enterprises, dichotomising regional differences between actual and expected numbers of establishments into industry structure and local regional effects. The development of high-growth enterprises merely exacerbates inter-regional differences. Urban centres dominate in terms of their shares of high-growth enterprises and establishments, although two of the peripheral regions do attract higher than expected numbers of such establishments. While the regional spread of high-growth establishments is greater than that of high-growth enterprises, this will not redress the chronic regional disparities within New Zealand.
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Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.15 × 0.4 = 0.06 |
| M · momentum | 0.80 × 0.15 = 0.12 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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