Spatial Implication of New Information and Communication Technologies on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: A Case Study of Clothing Industry
Received date: 2008-09-13
Revised date: 2009-01-22
Online published: 2009-04-25
Supported by
National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.40571047]
The wide application of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) has been argued to be critical to business success of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), especially to those in the developing countries. Such advances have initiated debates on the spatial implications of new ICTs. Existing literature is mainly concentrated on spatial impacts of new ICTs at urban and city level, while the spatial transformation at firm level has not yet been given enough attention by geographers. Drawing upon existing literature, this paper examines Shangyu clothing cluster in Zhejiang Province and PPG company in Shanghai City as case studies to look into the spatial impacts of ICTs on SMEs. The paper argues that application of new ICTs tends to lead to "dispersed concentration" of SMEs at local level, while "time-cost" plays an important role in transforming the spatial organization of firms under new ICTs.
SONG Zhouying, DING Jianghui, LIU Weidong, LIU Yi . Spatial Implication of New Information and Communication Technologies on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: A Case Study of Clothing Industry[J]. Acta Geographica Sinica, 2009 , 64(4) : 435 -444 . DOI: 10.11821/xb200904006
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