Regional patterns of business performance among small and medium sized public accounting firms in New York State

Regional Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 827-838

  Sen, Jayanti ^a   MacPherson, Alan ^b  

^a D'YOUVILLE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Business performance; New York State; Public accounting sector; Regional variations; Service diversification

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; REGIONAL PATTERN; SERVICE SECTOR; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

NEW YORK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032463137     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343409850117988     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. BAGCHI-SEN S. and SEN J. (1997) The evolution of service multinationals: an analysis of accounting and advertising firms, Occasional Paper No. 18, Canada-United States Trade Center, Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, NY.
2. DAGCHI-SEN S. and KEUCHLER L. (1997) The internationalization of professional services: the case of accountancy firms in Western New York, Occasional Paper No. 19, Canada-United States Trade Center, Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, NY.
3. BEAUCHEMIN T. J. (1991) Facing new challenges, The Practicing CPA, September, pp. 7-8.
4. BEAVERSTOCK J. V. (1991) Skilled international migration: an analysis of the geography of international secondments within large accountancy firms, Environ. Plann. A 23, 1,133-46.
5. BEYERS W. B. and ALVINE M. J. (1985) Export services in post-industrial society, Pap. Reg. Sci. Ass. 57, 33-45.
6. BEYERS W. B. and LINDAHL D. P. (1994) Competitive advantage and information technologies in the producer services, paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Association American Geographers, San Francisco, April.
7. BRACHEL J. V. (1996) Reinventing the CPA, J. Accountancy 182, 49-51.
8. BRYSON J. R., WOOD P. and KEEBLE D. (1993) Business networks, small firms' flexibility and regional development in UK business services, Entrepreneurship & Reg. Development 5, 265-77.
9. COFFEY W. J. (1995) Producer services research in Canada, Prof. Geogr. 47, 74-81.
10. COFFEY W. J. and DROLET R. (1996) Make or buy: internationalization and externalization of producer service outputs in the Montreal metropolitan area, Can. J. Reg. Sci. 19(1), 25-48.
11. COFFEY W. J. and POLESE M. (1987) Trade and location of producer services: a Canadian perspective, Environ. Plann. A 19, 597-611.
12. CORNISH S. (1997) Product innovation and the spatial dynamics of market intelligence: does proximity to markets matter?, Econ. Geogr. 73, 143-65.
13. DANIELS P. W. (1995) Producer services research in the United Kingdom, Prof. Geogr. 47, 82-87.
14. DANIELS P. W., VAN DINTEREN J. H. J. and MONNOYER M. C. (1992) Consultancy services and the urban hierarchy in Western Europe, Environ. Plann. A 24, 1,731-48.
15. DENNIS A. (1990) Management advisory services: a new practice niche, J. Accountancy 169(3), 83-86.
16. ESPARZA A. and KRMENEC A. (1996) The spatial extent of producer service markets: hierarchical models of interaction revisited, Pap. Reg. Sci. 75, 375-95.
17. FISHER J. S. (1994) The new finance, J. Accountancy 178(2), 73-76.
18. GREENFIELD H. (1966) Manpower and the Growth of Producer Services. Columbia University Press, New York.
19. HARRINGTON J. W. JR (1995) Empirical research on producer service growth and regional development: international comparisons, Prof. Geogr. 47, 66-69.
20. HARRINGTON J. W. (1997) Producer services study in a reinvigorated regional science, paper presented at the 44th North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association International, Buffalo, NY, November.
21. HARRINGTON J. W. and LOMBARD J. R. (1989) Producer service firms in a declining manufacturing region, Environ. Plann. A 21, 65-79.
22. HARRINGTON J. W., MACPHERSON A. D. and LOMBARD J. R. (1991) Interregional trade in producer services: review and synthesis, Growth & Change 22, 75-94.
23. ISRAELOFF R. L. (1993) Positioning a firm for international opportunities, J. Accountancy 172(1), 46-50.
24. JERRIS S. I. and PEARSON T. A. (1996) Benchmarking CPA firms for productivity and efficiency, The CPA Journal 67(7), 64-66.
25. KEEFE G. L. (1989) Helping clients prepare for global markets, J. Accountancy 168(1), 54-65.
26. LINDAHL D. (1994) Market differentiation and competitiveness in the producer services: can local firms compete with large multi-establishment firms?, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association American Geographers, San Francisco, April.
27. MACKUN P. and MACPHERSON A. (1997) Externally-assisted product innovation in the manufacturing sector: the role of location, in-house R&D and outside technical support, Reg. Studies 31, 659-68.
28. MACPHERSON A. (1997) The role of producer service outsourcing in the innovation performance of New York State manufacturing firms, Ann. Ass. Am. Geogr. 87, 52-71.
29. MCCONNELL J. E., CHANDRA B. and STEINETZ J. (1989) Potential impacts of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement upon the economies of Erie and Niagara counties, Occasional Paper No. 1, Canada-United States Trade Center, Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, NY.
30. MITCHELSON R. J. and WHEELER J. O. (1994) The flow of information in a global economy: the role of the American urban system in 1990, Ann. Ass. Am. Geogr. 84, 87-107.
31. NOYELLE T. (1997) Business services and the economic performance of the New York metropolitan region, Fed. Res. Bank of NY Econ. Pol. Rev. 3(1), 79-82.
32. O'CONNER K. (1996) Industrial design as a producer service: a framework for analysis in regional science, Pap. Reg. Sci. 75, 237-52.
33. O'FARRELL P. N., HITCHENS D. M. and MOFFAT L. A. R. (1995) Business service firms in two peripheral economies: Scotland and Ireland, Tidschr. Econ. Soc. Geogr. 86, 115-28.
34. O'FARRELL P. N., WOOD P. A. and ZHENG J. (1996a) Internationalization of business services: an interregional analysis, Reg. Studies 30, 101-18.
35. O'FARRELL P. N., HITCHENS D. M. and MOFFAT L. A. R. (1996b) The competitiveness of business services and regional development: evidence from Scotland and the South East of England, Urban Studies 30, 629-52.
36. PORTER M. (1990) The Competitive Advantage of Nations. Free Press, New York.
37. ROYCE G. S. (1996) An American CPA in Tokyo, J. Accountancy 181(5), 65-70.
38. SEN J. (1997) A locational perspective on the competitiveness of small and medium-sized accounting firms: an empirical perspective from New York State, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, NY.
39. SEN J. and HALL L. (1994) A progress report on the liberalization of trade in accounting services, J. Global Competitiveness 2, 247-52.
40. SHANNON C. E. and WEAVER W. (1949) The Mathematical Theory of Communication. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL.
41. SINKULA J. M. (1990) Perceived characteristics, organizational factors, and the utilization of external market research suppliers, J. Bus. Res. 21, 1-17.
42. STABLER J. C. and HOWE E. C. (1988) Service exports and regional growth in the postindustrial era, J. Reg. Sci. 28, 303-15.
43. STOLLE C. D. (1991) A survey looks at policies and practices in public accounting firms, Practicing CPA 15, 5-8.
44. WOOD P. A., BRYSON J. and KEEBLE D. (1993) Regional patterns of small firm development in the business services: evidence from the United Kingdom, Environ. Plann. A 25, 677-700.