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Geographical Coupling of the Location's Activity in Cyberspace and Agglomeration of Business Service Enterprises

Authors

Jian Wu and Sheng Qian, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China

Abstract

Cyberspace is the new geographical space formed in the virtual digital world which is different from the traditional geographical system. There are some debates that whether Cyberspace lead to further spatial divergence of economic activities or not. Based on existing related research achievements this paper studies the Cyberspace’s influence on the spatial distribution of business services, puts forward somehypothesizes about the relationship between the Cyberspace active location and the agglomeration of business services enterprises. By some empirical method, it measures the spatial coupling of location’s activity in Cyberspace and the business service enterprises’ agglomeration, and the econometric model is established to test the hypotheses. It finds that there is a high coupling relationship of location’s Cyberspace activity degree and spatial agglomeration of business services

Keywords

IT, Cyberspace, Active Location, Agglomeration, Business Service Enterprise

Full Text  Volume 8, Number 11