%0 Journal Article 
%A Araya, Manuel
%A Horváth, Krisztina
%A Leiva, Juan Carlos
%T The role of county competitiveness and manufacturing activity on the development of business service sectors: a precursor to territorial servitization

%D 2020
%@ 2340-2717
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/44929
%X This study evaluates how regional competitiveness and relevant properties of the manufacturing industry—i.e., size and rate of manufacturing firms—impact changes in the rate of business service firms. By employing fixed-effects regression models on a sample of 81 Costa Rican counties during 2010-2016, the findings reveal that the quality of the local environment positively affects business service specialization. Besides, manufacturing businesses contribute to increase in the rate of business services; however, this effect is only significant in counties with a greater manufacturing base, that is, in counties with a critical mass of manufacturers, in terms of number of manufacturers.

%K Territorial servitization
%K County competitiveness
%K Industry configuration
%K Costa Rica
%K Servitización territorial
%K Competitividad cantonal
%K Configuración industrial
%K Economía
%K Economics
%K Geografía
%K Geography
%K Sociología
%K Sociology
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