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Executives and Business Services: Key Factors of French Metropolitan Growth

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  • Pierre-Yves Léo
  • Jean Philippe

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France has experienced since the 1970s a huge change in employment trends concerning activity sectors but also location patterns. Research by the authors tends to show that the business service sector plays an effective driving role in these dynamics, particularly during the last decade. It seems that new geographical dynamics are now emerging: after a period characterised by an overwhelming tendency to concentrate on the Parisian pole, some diffusion shifts are appearing in favour of second rank metropolitan areas. Their attractiveness depends mainly on executives, particularly inside the business service sector. The variety of activities inside this sector, which was clearly playing the main role at the regional level, seems to be just a second rank variable when explaining the economic dynamism of the metropolis.

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  • Pierre-Yves Léo & Jean Philippe, 2007. "Executives and Business Services: Key Factors of French Metropolitan Growth," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(3), pages 215-232, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:servic:v:27:y:2007:i:3:p:215-232
    DOI: 10.1080/02642060701206967
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