Review of Business Location Research: a Bibliometric Analysis from 1968 to 2022

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54790/rccs.92

Keywords:

business location, co-word analysis, bibliometric analysis, SciMAT, longitudinal analysis, strategic diagram, thematic network

Abstract

This research presents the results of a bibliometric analysis of academic research published on the topic of business location during the period from 1968 to 2022. Specifically, it seeks to identify, from a longitudinal perspective over time, the relationships between past and current topics, as well as to predict emerging trends in this field of research. The analysis has been conducted using SciMAT software, through which strategic diagrams and thematic networks based on the co-occurrence of keywords are obtained. A total of 509 documents from 1138 authors and 1799 keyword clusters have been processed. The results show that the main topics within the area of business location in the last five years are “Foreign direct investment”, “Perspective”, “Growth” and “Decisions”.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

Virginia Pérez-Benítez, University of Malaga

Professor of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Malaga, Spain, in the Department of Economics and Business Administration. PhD candidate at Doctoral program in Economics and Business, Universidad de Malaga. His research has focused on quantitative methods in business and economics research.

German Gemar, University of Malaga

Professor of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Malaga, Spain, in the Department of Economics and Business Administration. He has a PhD in Business Administration from the University of Malaga. His research has focused on strategic management, business, firm survival, tourism, hospitality, the environment, corporate social responsibility, and cultural distance. He also has managed hotels for 15 years and worked as the general manager of the Malaga Provincial Council.

References

Akın, B., & Seyfettinoğlu, Ü. (2022). Factors determining the location decision: Analysis of location choice preferences of the ICI-1000 companies with the nested logit model. Central Bank Review, 22(1), 57-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbrev.2022.03.001

Alcácer, J., & Chung, W. (2007). Location strategies and knowledge spillovers. Management science, 53(5), 760-776. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1060.0637

Alcácer, J., Dezső, C., & Zhao, M. (2015). Location choices under strategic interactions. Strategic Management Journal, 36(2), 197-215. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.2214

Arauzo-Carod, J., Liviano-Solis, D., & Manjón-Antolín, M. (2010). Empirical studies in industrial location: An assessment of their methods and results. Journal of Regional Science, 50(3), 685-711. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9787.2009.00625.x

Arauzo-Carod, J.-M. (2013). Location determinants of new firms: does skill level of human capital really matter? Growth and Change, 44(1), 118-148. https://doi.org/10.1111/grow.12004

Assaf, A., & Agbola, F. (2011). Modelling the performance of Australian hotels: a DEA double bootstrap approach. Tourism economics, 17(1), 73-89. https://doi.org/10.5367/te.2011.0027

Bartik, T. J. (1985). Business location decisions in the United States: Estimates of the effects of unionization, taxes, and other characteristics of states. Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 3(1), 14-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350015.1985.10509422

Bartik, T. J. (1988). The effects of environmental regulation on business location in the United States. Growth and Change, 19(3), 22-44. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2257.1988.tb00473.x

Braunerhjelm, P., & Svensson, R. (1996). Host country characteristics and agglomeration in foreign direct investment. Applied Economics, 28(7), 833-840. https://doi.org/10.1080/000368496328272

Callon, M., Courtial, J., & Laville, F. (1991). Co-word analysis as a tool for describing the network of interactions between basic and technological research: The case of polymer chemsitry. Scientometrics, 22(1), 155-205. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02019280

Chang, X., & Li, J. (2019). Business performance prediction in location-based social commerce. Expert Systems with Applications, 126, 112-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.01.086

Cissé, I., Dubé, J., & Brunelle, C. (2020). New business location: how local characteristics influence individual location decision? The Annals of Regional Science, 64(1), 185-214. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-019-00968-1

Clarivate Web of Science (WoS). (s.f.). Obtenido de https://webofscience.com/wos

Cobo, M., López-Herrera, A., Herrera-Viedma, E., & Herrera, F. (2012). SciMAT: A New Science Mapping Analysis Software Tool. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(8), 1609–1630. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.22688

Devereux, M., Griffith, R., & Simpson, H. (2007). Firm location decisions, regional grants and agglomeration externalities. Journal of Public Economics, 91(3-4), 413-435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2006.12.002

Dye, R., & Merriman, D. (2000). The effects of tax increment financing on economic development. Journal of urban Economics, 47(2), 306-328. https://doi.org/10.1006/juec.1999.2149

Enrich, P. D. (1996). Saving the states from themselves: Commerce clause constraints on state tax incentives for business. Harvard Law Review, 377-468. https://doi.org/10.2307/1342149

Gabe, T., & Bell, K. (2004). Tradeoffs between local taxes and government spending as determinants of business location. Journal of Regional Science, 44(1), 21-41. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1085-9489.2004.00326.x

Gemar, G., Moniche, L., & Morales, A. (2016). Survival analysis of the Spanish hotel industry. Tourism Management, 54, 428-438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2015.12.012

Gemar, G., Soler, I. P., & Guzman-Parra, V. F. (2019). Predicting bankruptcy in resort hotels: a survival analysis. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 31(4), 1546-1566. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-10-2017-0640

Gemar, G., Soler, I., & Sánchez-Teba, E. (2021). Waste Management: Valorisation Is the Way. Foods, 10(10), 2373. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods10102373

Griffith, R., Miller, H., & O’Connell, M. (2014). Ownership of intellectual property and corporate taxation. Journal of Public Economics, 112, 12-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.01.009

He, J. (2006). Pollution haven hypothesis and environmental impacts of foreign direct investment: The case of industrial emission of sulfur dioxide (SO2) in Chinese provinces. Ecological economics, 60(1), 228-245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.12.008

Hirsch, J. (2005). An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 16569–16572. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0507655102

Hofstede, G. (1984). Culture’s consequences: International differences in work-related values (vol. 5). London: Sage Publications.

Jensen, P., & Pedersen, T. (2011). The economic geography of offshoring: the fit between activities and local context. Journal of Management Studies, 48(2), 352-372. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2010.00967.x

Jo, Y., & Lee, C.-Y. (2014). Technological capability, agglomeration economies and firm location choice. Regional Studies, 48(8), 1337-1352. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2012.711946

Johnson, J., & Rasker, R. (1995). The role of economic and quality of life values in rural business location. Journal of Rural Studies, 11(4), 405-416. https://doi.org/10.1016/0743-0167(95)00029-1

Kheder, S. B., & Zugravu, N. (2012). Environmental regulation and French firms location abroad: An economic geography model in an international comparative study. Ecological Economics, 77, 48-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.10.005

Lafuente, E., Vaillant, Y., & Serarols, C. (2010). Lafuente, E., Vaillant, Y., & Serarols, C. (2010). Location decisions of knowledge-based entrepreneurs: why some Catalan KISAs choose to be rural?. Technovation, 30(11-12), 590-600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2010.07.004

Lee, H., Pattnaik, C., & Gaur, A. (2023). Internationalization of I-business Firms: The role of distance on location choice. Journal of Business Research, 164, 114010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114010

Lin, J., Oentaryo, R., Lim, E.-P., Vu, C., Vu, A., & Kwee, A. (2016). Where is the Goldmine?: Finding Promising Business Locations through Facebook Data Analytics. Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT’16), (pp. 93-102). https://doi.org/10.1145/2914586.2914588

Malecki, E. (1985). Industrial location and corporate organization in high technology industries. Economic Geography, 61(4), 345-369. https://doi.org/10.2307/144054

Marshall, A. (1890). Principles of economics. London: MacMillan.

Martin, R., & Sunley, P. (2003). Deconstructing clusters: chaotic concept or policy panacea? Journal of economic geography, 3(1), 5-35. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/3.1.5

Mejia-Dorantes, L., Paez, A., & Vassallo, J. M. (2012). Transportation infrastructure impacts on firm location: the effect of a new. Journal of Transport Geography, 22, 236-250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2011.09.006

Muñoz-Leiva, F., Porcu, L., & Barrio-García, S. (2015). Discovering prominent themes in integrated marketing communication research from 1991 to 2012: a co-word analytic approach. International Journal of Advertising, 34(4), 678-701. https://doi.org/10.1080/02650487.2015.1009348

Muñoz-Leiva, F., Sánchez-Fernández, J., Liébana-Cabanillas, F., & López-Herrera, A. (2012). Applying an automatic approach for showing up the hidden themes. Expert Systems with Applications, 39, 11055–11065. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2012.03.017

Muñoz-Leiva, F., Viedma-del-Jesús, M., Sánchez-Fernández, J., & López-Herrera, A. (2012). An application of co-word analysis and bibliometric maps for detecting the most highlighting themes in the consumer behaviour research from a longitudinal perspective. Quality & Quantity, 46(4), 1077-1095. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-011-9565-3

Piacentino, D., Bono, F., Cracolici, M., & Giuliani, D. (2017). A spatial analysis of new business formation: Replicative vs innovative behaviour. Spatial Statistics, 21, 390-405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2017.02.004

Piecyk, M., & Björklund, M. (2015). Logistics service providers and corporate social responsibility: sustainability reporting in the logistics industry. International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 45(5), 459-485. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPDLM-08-2013-0228

Strotmann, H. (2007). Entrepreneurial survival. Small business economics, 28(1), 87-104. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-005-8859-z

Suárez Serrato, J., & Zidar, O. (2016). Who benefits from state corporate tax cuts? A local labor markets approach with heterogeneous firms. American Economic Review, 106(9), 2582-2624. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20141702

Weber, A. (1929). Theory of the Location of Industries. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Wu, H., Guo, H., Bing, Z., & Bu, M. (2017). Westward movement of new polluting firms in China: Pollution reduction mandates and location choice. Journal of Comparative Economics, 45(1), 119-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2016.01.001

Xu, Y., Shen, Y., Zhu, Y., & Yu, J. (2020). AR2Net: An Attentive Neural Approach for Business Location Selection with Satellite Data and Urban Data. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 14(2), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1145/3372406

Published

2024-07-03

How to Cite

Pérez-Benítez, V., & Gemar, G. (2024). Review of Business Location Research: a Bibliometric Analysis from 1968 to 2022. CENTRA Journal of Social Sciences, 3(2), 73–96. https://doi.org/10.54790/rccs.92

Funding data