J N Marshall
Biographic Data
| ID | 1473928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J N Marshall |
| GIVEN NAMES | J N |
| FAMILY NAME | Marshall |
| SIGNATURE | MARSHALL J N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 274 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
A geographical political economy of banking crises: A peripheral region perspective on organisational concentration and spatial centralisation in Britain
Responding to academic interest in the economic geographies of financial bubbles and crashes, this article examines the British experience of the 2007–2009 global banking crisis. It adopts a culturally informed geographical political economy approach that explores why institutions most seriously affected by the 2007–2009 crisis were located in peripheral locations. The banking crisis is viewed as an episodic round of spatial centralisation in the…
Placing the run on northern rock
The collapse of Northern Rock in 2007 was the first major run on a UK retail bank since 1866. The Northern Rock case is exemplary on two fronts. First, described at the time of its collapse as an example of an aggressive business model employed by naïve management, it is now clear that Northern Rock marked the beginning of and provides insights into the credit crunch and wider global banking crisis. Second, Northern Rock provides a distinct conte…
Relocation, relocation, relocation: Assessing the case for public sector dispersal
Marshall J. N., Bradley D., Hodgson C., Alderman N. and Richardson R. (2005) Relocation, relocation, relocation: assessing the case for public sector dispersal, Regional Studies 39 , 767–787. The paper assesses the case for public sector relocation from capital cities using evidence from Britain. The senior echelons of the British civil service are disproportionately concentrated in London. Significant reductions in operating costs can be achieve…
Mutuality, De‐Mutualization and Communities: The Implications of Branch Network Rationalization in the British Building Society Industry
The paper examines the withdrawal of branches from local communities by financial institutions. It assesses whether mutually owned building societies are more adept than the former societies that have converted to public limited companies (plcs), or the high street banks, in serving disadvantaged communities. The paper shows that during the mid‐1990s: mutual building societies were more likely than former societies that have converted to plcs to …
The Employment Implications of Civil Service Reform in the United Kingdom: National and Regional Evidence from the North East of England
The authors examine the impact of civil service reform on work and employment in the civil service. The research is based on an analysis, at the national scale, of secondary-source employment data, and a case study of civil service employment in the North East of England. Important gender dimensions to employment change are demonstrated. Nationally, job losses have been concentrated in full-time work in lower administrative grades-where women pre…
The transformation of the British building society movement: Managerial divisions and corporate reorganization, 1986–1997
A Geography of European Integration
(1994). A Geography of European Integration. Economic Geography: Vol. 70, Theme Issue: Global-Local Relations, pp. 198-200
Business Reorganization and the Development of Corporate Services in Metropolitan Areas
This paper, based on British evidence, examines the impact of business reorganization on service activities in large metropolitan areas. Employment in head offices is declining, and growing head office demands for business services are being supplied by local specialist service firms. As they grow, large metropolitan areas are increasingly becoming the base for higher order managerial, business service and financial services, with routine adminis…
Regulatory Change, Corporate Restructuring and the Spatial Development of the British Financial Sector
MARSHALL J. N., GENTLE C. J. S., RAYBOULD S. and COOMBES M. (1992) Regulatory change, corporate restructuring and the spatial development of the British financial sector, Reg. Studies 26, 453–467. The paper explores the dynamics of employment growth and change in the financial sector in the regions of Britain during the 1980s. Complementing other work which has focused on international and corporate finance, it focuses on personal financial marke…
The Role of Services in Urban and Regional Development: Recent Debates and New Directions
The growing prominence of service activities in the advanced economies poses a substantial challenge for studies of urban and regional development. This paper is a review of different approaches to the analysis of service growth. Studies directed specifically at the development of producer or information services have contributed a valuable sense of the way in which services are leading economic change. They are, however, constrained by the predo…
Civil Service Relocation and the English Regions
MARSHALL J. N., ALDERMAN N. and THWAITES A. T. (1991) Civil service relocation and the English regions, Reg. Studies 25, 499–510. The paper uses case study evidence from a civil service related organization considering relocation to consider the impact on the regions of England of the recent round of civil service dispersal from London and the South East. It is based on a cost benefit analysis of the main operating costs of the unit considering r…
Business Reorganisation and Regional Development: The Case of the British Building Societies Movement
In this paper the impact of corporate restructuring in the British building societies movement is examined as an example of the changing organisation of the financial services industry, a significant component of the service sector. It is argued that regulatory changes, which have broken down the segmented and compartmentalised nature of the financial sector, have provided the opportunity for large building societies to diversify into new markets…
Service Activities and Uneven Spatial Development in Britain and its European Partners: Determinist Fallacies and New Options
The growing prominence of service activities in the European economies is part of a major structural change. In this paper, in contrast to the implicit determinism found in much research, the new locational possibilities being created by a reorganisation of service production within both private business and the public sector are emphasised. The present phase of reorganisation offers a ‘window of opportunity’ for policy influence before new patte…
Services and Uneven Development
Corporate Reorganization and the Geography of Services: Evidence from the Motor Vehicle Aftermarket in the West Midlands Region of the UK
MARSHALL J. N. (1989) Corporate reorganization and the geography of services: evidence from the motor vehicle aftermarket in the West Midlands region of the UK, Reg. Studies 23, 139–150. Research suggests that a corporate complex of administrative managerial and technical staff in the hinterland of capital cities underpins the spatial centralization of service activities in the economy. There have been important changes in corporate structures du…
Private services in an era of change
New industrial horizons and local responses
1989). New industrial horizons and local responses. Local Government Studies: Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 17-22
Services and Uneven Development
This book surveys the development of service industries in Britain from a geographical perspective, assessing their contribution to other sectors of the economy. The location of new service industries is described and explained, with an analysis of the effect of locational changes on employment opportunities and patterns. The contributors consider the economic role of private sector producer services and provide a British view of issues to comple…
Policy Review Section
In this Policy Review Section Neil Marshall and John Bachtler explore the role of the service sector in regional policy within the member states of the European Community focusing in particular on the role of the public sector and the application of financial incentives and controls. They conclude that greater attention needs to be given to the relationships with national industrial and technological policies, that there is considerable scope to …
Understanding the Location and Role of Producer Services in the United Kingdom
The growth of output and employment in services and their dominance in many local economies have increased academic interest in service activities. This paper is an examination of the contribution of producer services to the economy and their role in uneven development. Questions of definition plague the analysis of services, and a definition and classification of producer services are proposed. Existing research on producer services is reviewed …
Research Policy and Review 4. Services in a Postindustrial Economy
Service activities are major employers in developed countries, and it is widely believed that they will remain the main source of job creation. In this paper the processes of technological, employment, and locational change in tertiary activities in the United Kingdom are described. Although the UK economy is in employment terms a service economy, contrary to some predictions, this has coincided with material need and high unemployment. Employmen…
Business services, the regions and regional policy
Marshall J. N. (1985) Business services, the regions and regional policy, Reg. Studies 19, 353–363. The decline of employment in manufacturing industry in the UK has encouraged a more favourable treatment of services in regional policy. An analysis of the employment prospects for private services suggests further modest growth, and justifies the inclusion of such services in a policy package. However, service employment creation in less-prosperou…
Information technology changes corporate office activity
Spatial Perspectives on Technological Changes in the Banking Sector of the United Kingdom
In this paper the impact on employment of technological changes in the banking sector is examined. A range of technologies are described which utilise computer, electronic, and telecommunications equipment to produce, store, obtain, and transfer information. Economic pressures on the banks to use the equipment are considered. The influence of the organisation of banking institutions on the introduction of technology is outlined. It is argued that…
Business-Service Activities in British Provincial Conurbations
Business-service activities are poorly represented in provincial areas of the British economy, and this acts as a constraint on the economic growth of these locations. This argument is developed in a survey investigation of business-service offices in the conurbations of Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham. It is argued that external control is an important feature of the business-service sector, and that the organisational structure of multisite s…
Ownership, organisation and industrial linkage: A case study in the Northern Region of England
Marshall J. N. (1979) Ownership, organisation and industrial linkage: a case study in the Northern Region of England, Reg. Studies 13, 531–557. The paper examines the significance for regional economic development of the material, service and contact linkages of manufacturing establishments. Using data drawn primarily from a survey of 92 manufacturing plants in the Northern Region of the United Kingdom, the paper considers the extent to which dif…
Linkages between Manufacturing Industry and Business Services
Manufacturing industry demand for business services is examined in the British city regions of Birmingham, Leeds, and Manchester. A postal survey of selected industries considers the impact of a number of industrial and organisational determinants of spatial variations in manufacturing service demands. The study suggests that external control is not the only important predictor of service linkage; previous research has neglected the influence of …
Business services, the regions and regional policy
Marshall J. N. (1985) Business services, the regions and regional policy, Reg. Studies 19, 353–363. The decline of employment in manufacturing industry in the UK has encouraged a more favourable treatment of services in regional policy. An analysis of the employment prospects for private services suggests further modest growth, and justifies the inclusion of such services in a policy package. However, service employment creation in less-prosperou…
Business-Service Activities in British Provincial Conurbations
Business-service activities are poorly represented in provincial areas of the British economy, and this acts as a constraint on the economic growth of these locations. This argument is developed in a survey investigation of business-service offices in the conurbations of Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham. It is argued that external control is an important feature of the business-service sector, and that the organisational structure of multisite s…
Regulatory Change, Corporate Restructuring and the Spatial Development of the British Financial Sector
MARSHALL J. N., GENTLE C. J. S., RAYBOULD S. and COOMBES M. (1992) Regulatory change, corporate restructuring and the spatial development of the British financial sector, Reg. Studies 26, 453–467. The paper explores the dynamics of employment growth and change in the financial sector in the regions of Britain during the 1980s. Complementing other work which has focused on international and corporate finance, it focuses on personal financial marke…
The Role of Services in Urban and Regional Development: Recent Debates and New Directions
The growing prominence of service activities in the advanced economies poses a substantial challenge for studies of urban and regional development. This paper is a review of different approaches to the analysis of service growth. Studies directed specifically at the development of producer or information services have contributed a valuable sense of the way in which services are leading economic change. They are, however, constrained by the predo…
Mutuality, De‐Mutualization and Communities: The Implications of Branch Network Rationalization in the British Building Society Industry
The paper examines the withdrawal of branches from local communities by financial institutions. It assesses whether mutually owned building societies are more adept than the former societies that have converted to public limited companies (plcs), or the high street banks, in serving disadvantaged communities. The paper shows that during the mid‐1990s: mutual building societies were more likely than former societies that have converted to plcs to …
Understanding the Location and Role of Producer Services in the United Kingdom
The growth of output and employment in services and their dominance in many local economies have increased academic interest in service activities. This paper is an examination of the contribution of producer services to the economy and their role in uneven development. Questions of definition plague the analysis of services, and a definition and classification of producer services are proposed. Existing research on producer services is reviewed …
Corporate Reorganization and the Geography of Services: Evidence from the Motor Vehicle Aftermarket in the West Midlands Region of the UK
MARSHALL J. N. (1989) Corporate reorganization and the geography of services: evidence from the motor vehicle aftermarket in the West Midlands region of the UK, Reg. Studies 23, 139–150. Research suggests that a corporate complex of administrative managerial and technical staff in the hinterland of capital cities underpins the spatial centralization of service activities in the economy. There have been important changes in corporate structures du…
Placing the run on northern rock
The collapse of Northern Rock in 2007 was the first major run on a UK retail bank since 1866. The Northern Rock case is exemplary on two fronts. First, described at the time of its collapse as an example of an aggressive business model employed by naïve management, it is now clear that Northern Rock marked the beginning of and provides insights into the credit crunch and wider global banking crisis. Second, Northern Rock provides a distinct conte…
Business Reorganization and the Development of Corporate Services in Metropolitan Areas
This paper, based on British evidence, examines the impact of business reorganization on service activities in large metropolitan areas. Employment in head offices is declining, and growing head office demands for business services are being supplied by local specialist service firms. As they grow, large metropolitan areas are increasingly becoming the base for higher order managerial, business service and financial services, with routine adminis…
Relocation, relocation, relocation: Assessing the case for public sector dispersal
Marshall J. N., Bradley D., Hodgson C., Alderman N. and Richardson R. (2005) Relocation, relocation, relocation: assessing the case for public sector dispersal, Regional Studies 39 , 767–787. The paper assesses the case for public sector relocation from capital cities using evidence from Britain. The senior echelons of the British civil service are disproportionately concentrated in London. Significant reductions in operating costs can be achieve…
The transformation of the British building society movement: Managerial divisions and corporate reorganization, 1986–1997
Civil Service Relocation and the English Regions
MARSHALL J. N., ALDERMAN N. and THWAITES A. T. (1991) Civil service relocation and the English regions, Reg. Studies 25, 499–510. The paper uses case study evidence from a civil service related organization considering relocation to consider the impact on the regions of England of the recent round of civil service dispersal from London and the South East. It is based on a cost benefit analysis of the main operating costs of the unit considering r…
Policy Review Section
In this Policy Review Section Neil Marshall and John Bachtler explore the role of the service sector in regional policy within the member states of the European Community focusing in particular on the role of the public sector and the application of financial incentives and controls. They conclude that greater attention needs to be given to the relationships with national industrial and technological policies, that there is considerable scope to …
Service Activities and Uneven Spatial Development in Britain and its European Partners: Determinist Fallacies and New Options
The growing prominence of service activities in the European economies is part of a major structural change. In this paper, in contrast to the implicit determinism found in much research, the new locational possibilities being created by a reorganisation of service production within both private business and the public sector are emphasised. The present phase of reorganisation offers a ‘window of opportunity’ for policy influence before new patte…
Private services in an era of change
Spatial Perspectives on Technological Changes in the Banking Sector of the United Kingdom
In this paper the impact on employment of technological changes in the banking sector is examined. A range of technologies are described which utilise computer, electronic, and telecommunications equipment to produce, store, obtain, and transfer information. Economic pressures on the banks to use the equipment are considered. The influence of the organisation of banking institutions on the introduction of technology is outlined. It is argued that…
Organisational Theory and Industrial Location
In terms of theory, the study of industrial location is largely a derivative discipline. It is argued that industrial geographers have adopted concepts from the organisational sciences without sufficient consideration of their disciplinary context. A review of organisational science theory suggests that mainstream industrial location analysis is flawed from a political and methodological point of view. Industrial geography has adopted a model of …
Business Reorganisation and Regional Development: The Case of the British Building Societies Movement
In this paper the impact of corporate restructuring in the British building societies movement is examined as an example of the changing organisation of the financial services industry, a significant component of the service sector. It is argued that regulatory changes, which have broken down the segmented and compartmentalised nature of the financial sector, have provided the opportunity for large building societies to diversify into new markets…
A geographical political economy of banking crises: A peripheral region perspective on organisational concentration and spatial centralisation in Britain
Responding to academic interest in the economic geographies of financial bubbles and crashes, this article examines the British experience of the 2007–2009 global banking crisis. It adopts a culturally informed geographical political economy approach that explores why institutions most seriously affected by the 2007–2009 crisis were located in peripheral locations. The banking crisis is viewed as an episodic round of spatial centralisation in the…
Corporate Organisation and Regional Office Employment
Research in the United Kingdom focussed on large multisite organisations has suggested that they play an important role in accounting for the distribution of office employment. It is generally suggested that deficits in peripheral-region office employment may be related to the increasing concentration of office employment in manufacturing industry close to corporate headquarters, usually in the Southeast of England. This paper argues that such a …
New industrial horizons and local responses
1989). New industrial horizons and local responses. Local Government Studies: Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 17-22
The Employment Implications of Civil Service Reform in the United Kingdom: National and Regional Evidence from the North East of England
The authors examine the impact of civil service reform on work and employment in the civil service. The research is based on an analysis, at the national scale, of secondary-source employment data, and a case study of civil service employment in the North East of England. Important gender dimensions to employment change are demonstrated. Nationally, job losses have been concentrated in full-time work in lower administrative grades-where women pre…
Information technology changes corporate office activity
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Ownership, organisation and industrial linkage: A case study in the Northern Region of England
Marshall J. N. (1979) Ownership, organisation and industrial linkage: a case study in the Northern Region of England, Reg. Studies 13, 531–557. The paper examines the significance for regional economic development of the material, service and contact linkages of manufacturing establishments. Using data drawn primarily from a survey of 92 manufacturing plants in the Northern Region of the United Kingdom, the paper considers the extent to which dif…
Corporate Organisation and Regional Office Employment
Research in the United Kingdom focussed on large multisite organisations has suggested that they play an important role in accounting for the distribution of office employment. It is generally suggested that deficits in peripheral-region office employment may be related to the increasing concentration of office employment in manufacturing industry close to corporate headquarters, usually in the Southeast of England. This paper argues that such a …
Organisational Theory and Industrial Location
In terms of theory, the study of industrial location is largely a derivative discipline. It is argued that industrial geographers have adopted concepts from the organisational sciences without sufficient consideration of their disciplinary context. A review of organisational science theory suggests that mainstream industrial location analysis is flawed from a political and methodological point of view. Industrial geography has adopted a model of …
Linkages between Manufacturing Industry and Business Services
Manufacturing industry demand for business services is examined in the British city regions of Birmingham, Leeds, and Manchester. A postal survey of selected industries considers the impact of a number of industrial and organisational determinants of spatial variations in manufacturing service demands. The study suggests that external control is not the only important predictor of service linkage; previous research has neglected the influence of …
Business-Service Activities in British Provincial Conurbations
Business-service activities are poorly represented in provincial areas of the British economy, and this acts as a constraint on the economic growth of these locations. This argument is developed in a survey investigation of business-service offices in the conurbations of Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham. It is argued that external control is an important feature of the business-service sector, and that the organisational structure of multisite s…
Information technology changes corporate office activity
Spatial Perspectives on Technological Changes in the Banking Sector of the United Kingdom
In this paper the impact on employment of technological changes in the banking sector is examined. A range of technologies are described which utilise computer, electronic, and telecommunications equipment to produce, store, obtain, and transfer information. Economic pressures on the banks to use the equipment are considered. The influence of the organisation of banking institutions on the introduction of technology is outlined. It is argued that…
Research Policy and Review 4. Services in a Postindustrial Economy
Service activities are major employers in developed countries, and it is widely believed that they will remain the main source of job creation. In this paper the processes of technological, employment, and locational change in tertiary activities in the United Kingdom are described. Although the UK economy is in employment terms a service economy, contrary to some predictions, this has coincided with material need and high unemployment. Employmen…
Business services, the regions and regional policy
Marshall J. N. (1985) Business services, the regions and regional policy, Reg. Studies 19, 353–363. The decline of employment in manufacturing industry in the UK has encouraged a more favourable treatment of services in regional policy. An analysis of the employment prospects for private services suggests further modest growth, and justifies the inclusion of such services in a policy package. However, service employment creation in less-prosperou…
Policy Review Section
In this Policy Review Section Neil Marshall and John Bachtler explore the role of the service sector in regional policy within the member states of the European Community focusing in particular on the role of the public sector and the application of financial incentives and controls. They conclude that greater attention needs to be given to the relationships with national industrial and technological policies, that there is considerable scope to …
Understanding the Location and Role of Producer Services in the United Kingdom
The growth of output and employment in services and their dominance in many local economies have increased academic interest in service activities. This paper is an examination of the contribution of producer services to the economy and their role in uneven development. Questions of definition plague the analysis of services, and a definition and classification of producer services are proposed. Existing research on producer services is reviewed …
Services and Uneven Development
This book surveys the development of service industries in Britain from a geographical perspective, assessing their contribution to other sectors of the economy. The location of new service industries is described and explained, with an analysis of the effect of locational changes on employment opportunities and patterns. The contributors consider the economic role of private sector producer services and provide a British view of issues to comple…
Corporate Reorganization and the Geography of Services: Evidence from the Motor Vehicle Aftermarket in the West Midlands Region of the UK
MARSHALL J. N. (1989) Corporate reorganization and the geography of services: evidence from the motor vehicle aftermarket in the West Midlands region of the UK, Reg. Studies 23, 139–150. Research suggests that a corporate complex of administrative managerial and technical staff in the hinterland of capital cities underpins the spatial centralization of service activities in the economy. There have been important changes in corporate structures du…
Private services in an era of change
New industrial horizons and local responses
1989). New industrial horizons and local responses. Local Government Studies: Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 17-22
Service Activities and Uneven Spatial Development in Britain and its European Partners: Determinist Fallacies and New Options
The growing prominence of service activities in the European economies is part of a major structural change. In this paper, in contrast to the implicit determinism found in much research, the new locational possibilities being created by a reorganisation of service production within both private business and the public sector are emphasised. The present phase of reorganisation offers a ‘window of opportunity’ for policy influence before new patte…
Services and Uneven Development
Civil Service Relocation and the English Regions
MARSHALL J. N., ALDERMAN N. and THWAITES A. T. (1991) Civil service relocation and the English regions, Reg. Studies 25, 499–510. The paper uses case study evidence from a civil service related organization considering relocation to consider the impact on the regions of England of the recent round of civil service dispersal from London and the South East. It is based on a cost benefit analysis of the main operating costs of the unit considering r…
Business Reorganisation and Regional Development: The Case of the British Building Societies Movement
In this paper the impact of corporate restructuring in the British building societies movement is examined as an example of the changing organisation of the financial services industry, a significant component of the service sector. It is argued that regulatory changes, which have broken down the segmented and compartmentalised nature of the financial sector, have provided the opportunity for large building societies to diversify into new markets…
Regulatory Change, Corporate Restructuring and the Spatial Development of the British Financial Sector
MARSHALL J. N., GENTLE C. J. S., RAYBOULD S. and COOMBES M. (1992) Regulatory change, corporate restructuring and the spatial development of the British financial sector, Reg. Studies 26, 453–467. The paper explores the dynamics of employment growth and change in the financial sector in the regions of Britain during the 1980s. Complementing other work which has focused on international and corporate finance, it focuses on personal financial marke…
The Role of Services in Urban and Regional Development: Recent Debates and New Directions
The growing prominence of service activities in the advanced economies poses a substantial challenge for studies of urban and regional development. This paper is a review of different approaches to the analysis of service growth. Studies directed specifically at the development of producer or information services have contributed a valuable sense of the way in which services are leading economic change. They are, however, constrained by the predo…
A Geography of European Integration
(1994). A Geography of European Integration. Economic Geography: Vol. 70, Theme Issue: Global-Local Relations, pp. 198-200
Business Reorganization and the Development of Corporate Services in Metropolitan Areas
This paper, based on British evidence, examines the impact of business reorganization on service activities in large metropolitan areas. Employment in head offices is declining, and growing head office demands for business services are being supplied by local specialist service firms. As they grow, large metropolitan areas are increasingly becoming the base for higher order managerial, business service and financial services, with routine adminis…
Economics (24 works) · Business (23 works) · Economy (14 works) · Geography (12 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (10 works) · Marketing (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economic geography (9 works) · Tertiary sector of the economy (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works)