TY  - SER
AU  - Neal, Zachary P. 
AU  -  Derudder, Ben
AU  -  Taylor, Peter J.
TI  - Should I Stay or Should I Go: Predicting Advanced Producer Services Firm Expansion and Contraction
PY  - 2019///
PB  - Sage
KW  - location models
KW  -  spatial analysis,
KW  - methods,
KW  - city size and city systems
KW  -  urban and regional spatial structure
KW  -  spatial structure,
KW  - producer services,
KW  - stochastic degree sequence model,
KW  - world cities
N2  - The literature on firm location selection allows us to retrospectively explain why firms did locate in particular places. However, it remains challenging to prospectively predict where they will locate. In this article, we propose a simple conceptual model of firm location decisions, then operationalize it using the ordinal stochastic degree sequence model (oSDSM). We use this model to predict whether 104 advanced producer service firms will expand, contract, or maintain their presence in each of 525 cities, and find that these predictions are accurate in more than 86 percent of cases. We conclude with suggestions for further refinement of this model
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0160017618784739
ER  -