Böhlin, Wigblad, McCluskey Productivity increase when relocating to rural areas The Relocation-Effect: A Productivity Increase when Relocating Service Activities from City to Rural Areas.
Contacts with companies that had relocated service activities from the Stockholm city area to rural areas during the seventies, eighteens and the nineties, pointed to a phenomenon of increased productivity. A small study in 1995 also confirmed the experience of a positive leap in productivity. Previ...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.143.8156 2023-05-15T17:44:37+02:00 Böhlin, Wigblad, McCluskey Productivity increase when relocating to rural areas The Relocation-Effect: A Productivity Increase when Relocating Service Activities from City to Rural Areas. Ragnwald Böhlin B. Sc Associate Professor Rune Wigblad Dr Denise R. Mccluskey The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.143.8156 http://is2.lse.ac.uk/asp/aspecis/20030130.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.143.8156 http://is2.lse.ac.uk/asp/aspecis/20030130.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://is2.lse.ac.uk/asp/aspecis/20030130.pdf Learning effect Productivity Relocation Rural Sweden text ftciteseerx 2016-01-07T15:03:33Z Contacts with companies that had relocated service activities from the Stockholm city area to rural areas during the seventies, eighteens and the nineties, pointed to a phenomenon of increased productivity. A small study in 1995 also confirmed the experience of a positive leap in productivity. Previous research in the field is limited and mostly related to manufacturing industry. The literature reports no evidence of a positive change in productivity after relocation into rural areas. In 2000 – 2002, we conducted a study of 26 companies/organisations that has relocated service activities from the Stockholm city area into rural areas, mostly in northern Sweden. 80 % of the respondents reported an increase in productivity less than 1.5 years after the relocation and over 70 % reported an increase in quality 1.5 years after the relocation. The aim of this paper is to create an interest for our Research- in- Progress, and to be able Text Northern Sweden Unknown |
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Contacts with companies that had relocated service activities from the Stockholm city area to rural areas during the seventies, eighteens and the nineties, pointed to a phenomenon of increased productivity. A small study in 1995 also confirmed the experience of a positive leap in productivity. Previous research in the field is limited and mostly related to manufacturing industry. The literature reports no evidence of a positive change in productivity after relocation into rural areas. In 2000 – 2002, we conducted a study of 26 companies/organisations that has relocated service activities from the Stockholm city area into rural areas, mostly in northern Sweden. 80 % of the respondents reported an increase in productivity less than 1.5 years after the relocation and over 70 % reported an increase in quality 1.5 years after the relocation. The aim of this paper is to create an interest for our Research- in- Progress, and to be able |
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