出版社：Servicio central de publicacion. Gobierno Vasco
摘要：One of the reasons of the tertiary increase in the advanced economies is the
increasing external consumption of certain business services. Behind this
behavior it is the search of the advantages provided by the division of work,
especially important for those services that have greater requirements of
technology and workforce training, as it happens with advanced business
services. However, the advanced business services enterprises try to be located
in those territories from which they can access to wide markets that make
possible to take advantage of economics of scale. This leads to space
concentration of the sector around certain nodes, causing a reduced supply of
these activities in the rest of regions. There are some evidences that point out
that those regions with a smaller supply of advanced business services face a
smaller competitiveness of these kind of firms, so there will be important
efficiency differences in this sector between regions. For that reason in this
paper we study technical efficiency in the advanced business services
enterprises in Asturias, by using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).
