Breandan O Huallachain
Biographic Data
| ID | 1473938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Breandan O Huallachain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Breandan |
| FAMILY NAME | O Huallachain |
| SIGNATURE | HUALLACHÁIN B Ó |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0621-0530 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Testing an international and interregional inverse size-volatility hypothesis for invention
Invention volatility and urban systems dynamics
Large firms generate most American inventions. We know that cities are host to organizations of varying size and prevalence, but are these conditions important to urban system dynamics? This article presents volatility in patenting as a novel instrument for distinguishing between cities reliant on many or few organizations. Volatility is the standard deviation of a city’s inter-annual patenting growth rate over a period. We attest an inverse-size…
Organisations and the dynamics of change in the location of American invention
The effects of individual organisations on the location of invention in the United States is underexplored. A handful of companies generate most of the inventions in most American cities and their actions do not average out in the aggregate. Temporal stability in city system properties corroborates agglomeration theories built on models of monopolistic competition that treat all firms as small and uninfluential. However, substantial churn in pate…
Secondary city invention: Internal resources versus agglomeration allures
Empirical investigations of the geography of invention, especially regional knowledge production functions, attempt to pinpoint determinants of patenting intensity. They depict organizations reflexively locating their assets in response to place-based attributes. The inordinate concentration of patent generation in large metropolitan areas amplifies this perspective. However, organizational formation, patenting behaviours, and general economic de…
Globalizing manufacturing but not invention: Automotive transplants in the United States
Production by foreign-owned automotive firms in the United States provides an opportunity to investigate the co-location of technological advance and manufacturing. While some scholars report that certain foreign firms are transplanting both of these activities to the United States, others are more circumspect. We first identify automotive patents across American metropolitan areas to develop a new taxonomy of automotive invention. Patent ownersh…
Invention in the United States City System
This article draws on several empirical regularities underlying central place theory (CPT) to enhance understanding of the uneven distribution of invention in the U.S. city system, especially the immense array of specializations that comprise national technological advance. CPT depicts city systems as collections of places in which functions expand in number as city size increases. Small cities have few functions and large cities many. A long-ter…
Hierarchy and concentration in the American urban system of technological advance
Inventive Megaregions of the United States: Technological Composition and Location
Urban distinctiveness occurs in both technological and geographic space. This article explores spatial associations in the locational distribution of subcategories of patents across U.S. metropolitan areas. I converted patent counts to location quotients and used nonspatial methods to compare concentration levels of patents (Gini coefficients) and to identify groups of patents that tend to colocate (principal components analysis). The results sho…
Technological Specialization and Variety in Urban Invention
Ó HUallacháin B. and Lee D.-S. Technological specialization and variety in urban invention, Regional Studies. Urban economic theory distinguishes between knowledge spillovers that occur within specializations and those that cross technologies. Empirical analysis has sought to gauge their relative strength, but the results are inconclusive. Metropolitan specialization and variety at different aggregation levels of a US patent classification system…
Postindustrial Manufacturing in a Sunbelt Metropolis: Where Are Factories Located in Phoenix
Manufacturing establishments are integral to the spatial structure of fast-growing Sunbelt metropolitan areas, but most concepts and theories of intrametropolitan location were largely developed for an earlier technological era and different spatial contexts. This article investigates the location of nine disaggregated manufacturing sectors in Phoenix, Arizona, showing varying degrees of central core concentration and metropolitan-wide clustering…
Rethinking the regional knowledge production function
The knowledge production function is a questionable device for identifying the determinants of commercial patenting. Adapted from firm level analysis, it implicitly assumes that some mechanism exists to transfer research and development inputs across institutions to maximize invention output. Augmenting the approach with regional structure variables risks confounding causes and effects, because these conditions determine research and development …
Producer Services in the Urban Core and Suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona
Recent research shows growing concentration of corporate decision-making functions in metropolitan cores and strong relationships between managerial activities and producer services. The paper investigates the location of 12 disaggregated producer service sectors in Phoenix, Arizona. Concentration of legal, accounting and computer services underpin the economy of the inner core. Second-order unweighted and employment-weighted distance-based clust…
Spatial Convergence and Spillovers in American Invention
Endogenous growth theory places spatial knowledge spillovers at the center of national technological progress. Advances in spatial autocorrelation and regression analyses provide methods to assess the influence of these spillovers on the geographical distribution and growth of invention. This article investigates interstate inequality and convergence in per capita patenting in the United States in the period 1963–2003. We analyze both the complet…
Acquisition versus Greenfield Investment: The Location and Growth of Japanese Manufacturers in the United States
O HUALLACHAIN B. and REID N. (1997) Acquisition versus greenfield investment: the location and growth of Japanese manufacturers in the United States, Reg. Studies 31, 403-416. Investigating foreign direct investment by principal modes of entry helps explain the location of Japanese manufacturers in the United States. Japanese greenfield start-ups and acquired plants had distinct interregional distributions in different decades. We use ordinary le…
Sectoral Differences in the Determinants of the Location of Foreign Direct Investment in American Manufacturing
Foreign direct investment in American service sectors: Source country contrasts and locational determinants
Sectoral differences in the determinants of the location of foreign direct investment in American manufacturing
Foreign Direct Investment in American Service Sectors: Source Country Contrasts and Locational Determinants
Restructuring of Primary Industries: Technology, Labor, and Corporate Strategy and Control in the Arizona Copper Industry
Industrial restructuring in the primary sector highlights the continued exploitation of economies of scale, vertical integration, and oligopolistic competition. A few large vertically integrated firms wield power and control over material sources and production facilities. Restructuring of the copper industry in Arizona illustrates the interaction of changing corporate strategies and shifting market structures in primary production. A weakening o…
Economic Restructuring in Primary Industries: Transaction Costs and Corporate Vertical Integration in the Arizona Copper Industry, 1980–1991
The recent restructuring of the copper industry in Arizona offers a unique opportunity to evaluate the role of transaction costs in the reorganization of production systems. Contrary to popular assertions that mass production is declining in importance all across the economic landscape, our study documents the existence of firms that are exploiting economies of scale and intensifying vertical integration. Firms that dominate the restructuring pro…
Foreign Banking in the American Urban System of Financial Organization
Foreign banks in the United States are major sources of investment capital and producers of financial services. Foreign banking is localized in a few metropolises. Six major international banking centers serve as American nodes in the system of global flows of capital and financial services. The asset structure, size, type, and national origins of foreign banks in these centers reveal investment motives. New York is the primary foreign banking co…
Industrial geography
The Restructuring of the US Steel Industry: Changes in the Location of Production and Employment
Recent reorganization of the US iron and steel industry provides a useful setting for an analysis of the relationship between industrial location and institutional forms. Regression analysis shows that institutional shifts in the organization of production dominated geographical shifts in employment and product value as integrated maxi-mills sought to raise productivity. The reorganization of production includes mill abandonment, increased subcon…
Industrial geography
Sectoral growth patterns at the metropolitan level: An evaluation of economic development incentives
The Location and Growth of Business and Professional Services in American Metropolitan Areas, 1976–1986
The economic base of American metropolitan areas relies increasingly on business and professional services. We explore the causes for fast growth of these sectors in metropolitan areas for 1976–86. Business and professional services produce new types of inputs to a large number of sectors. They encompass far more than externalization of activities once produced internally by manufacturers. We emphasize localization of business and professional se…
Regional and Technological Implications of the Recent Buildup in American Defense Spending
American defense policy emphasizes technological sophistication of weapons and equipment. The current military buildup focusing on modernization of military hardware is influencing the character of American regional change. Much of the high-technology manufacturing growth in California. Texas, and New England is related to the distribution of Department of Defense contracts. The particular nature of the current military expansion has aggravated t…
Spatial Convergence and Spillovers in American Invention
Endogenous growth theory places spatial knowledge spillovers at the center of national technological progress. Advances in spatial autocorrelation and regression analyses provide methods to assess the influence of these spillovers on the geographical distribution and growth of invention. This article investigates interstate inequality and convergence in per capita patenting in the United States in the period 1963–2003. We analyze both the complet…
Acquisition versus Greenfield Investment: The Location and Growth of Japanese Manufacturers in the United States
O HUALLACHAIN B. and REID N. (1997) Acquisition versus greenfield investment: the location and growth of Japanese manufacturers in the United States, Reg. Studies 31, 403-416. Investigating foreign direct investment by principal modes of entry helps explain the location of Japanese manufacturers in the United States. Japanese greenfield start-ups and acquired plants had distinct interregional distributions in different decades. We use ordinary le…
Rethinking the regional knowledge production function
The knowledge production function is a questionable device for identifying the determinants of commercial patenting. Adapted from firm level analysis, it implicitly assumes that some mechanism exists to transfer research and development inputs across institutions to maximize invention output. Augmenting the approach with regional structure variables risks confounding causes and effects, because these conditions determine research and development …
Technological Specialization and Variety in Urban Invention
Ó HUallacháin B. and Lee D.-S. Technological specialization and variety in urban invention, Regional Studies. Urban economic theory distinguishes between knowledge spillovers that occur within specializations and those that cross technologies. Empirical analysis has sought to gauge their relative strength, but the results are inconclusive. Metropolitan specialization and variety at different aggregation levels of a US patent classification system…
Producer Services in the Urban Core and Suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona
Recent research shows growing concentration of corporate decision-making functions in metropolitan cores and strong relationships between managerial activities and producer services. The paper investigates the location of 12 disaggregated producer service sectors in Phoenix, Arizona. Concentration of legal, accounting and computer services underpin the economy of the inner core. Second-order unweighted and employment-weighted distance-based clust…
Sectoral growth patterns at the metropolitan level: An evaluation of economic development incentives
Globalizing manufacturing but not invention: Automotive transplants in the United States
Production by foreign-owned automotive firms in the United States provides an opportunity to investigate the co-location of technological advance and manufacturing. While some scholars report that certain foreign firms are transplanting both of these activities to the United States, others are more circumspect. We first identify automotive patents across American metropolitan areas to develop a new taxonomy of automotive invention. Patent ownersh…
Postindustrial Manufacturing in a Sunbelt Metropolis: Where Are Factories Located in Phoenix
Manufacturing establishments are integral to the spatial structure of fast-growing Sunbelt metropolitan areas, but most concepts and theories of intrametropolitan location were largely developed for an earlier technological era and different spatial contexts. This article investigates the location of nine disaggregated manufacturing sectors in Phoenix, Arizona, showing varying degrees of central core concentration and metropolitan-wide clustering…
Hierarchy and concentration in the American urban system of technological advance
The Restructuring of the US Steel Industry: Changes in the Location of Production and Employment
Recent reorganization of the US iron and steel industry provides a useful setting for an analysis of the relationship between industrial location and institutional forms. Regression analysis shows that institutional shifts in the organization of production dominated geographical shifts in employment and product value as integrated maxi-mills sought to raise productivity. The reorganization of production includes mill abandonment, increased subcon…
Sectoral Clustering and Growth in American Metropolitan Areas
Ó HUALLACHÁIN B. (1991) Sectoral clustering and growth in American metropolitan areas, Reg. Studies 25, 411–426. The purposes of this paper are to develop a theory of industrial clustering of information intensive industries, identify intermetropolitan clusters of sectors in the US, to test the relationship between the clustering pattern and metropolitan employment and income growth, and to interpret temporal changes in the clusters. The empirica…
The Location of US Manufacturing: Some Empirical Evidence on Recent Geographical Shifts
In this paper, current theories and hypotheses of industrial location are tested, using a cross-sectional regression analysis of employment change in total manufacturing, and in five high-technology sectors in each of 264 Metropolitan Statistical Areas, for the period 1977-84. Agglomeration forces and market opportunities, unions, wages, climate, and university research parks are best used to explain employment growth. Employment losses are relat…
The role of foreign direct investment in the development of regional industrial systems: Current knowledge and suggestions for a future American research agenda
Ó hUallacháin B. (1985) The role of foreign direct investment in the development of regional industrial systems: current knowledge and suggestions for a future American research agenda, Reg. Studies 20, 151–162. The role of foreign direct investment in American regional industrial systems differs from the experiences found in other countries. Foreign investment in the US is increasing rapidly outside of the traditional industrial heartland, it is…
The Identification of Industrial Complexes
The objective of this paper is to reassess the value of principal components analysis as a technique for identifying regional industrial complexes, taking explicit account of the different kinds of relationships that are possible among industries. The empirical evidence offered here tends to confirm recent criticism of principal components analysis as a means for detecting vertical relationships, but it demonstrates the usefulness of this method …
Restructuring of Primary Industries: Technology, Labor, and Corporate Strategy and Control in the Arizona Copper Industry
Industrial restructuring in the primary sector highlights the continued exploitation of economies of scale, vertical integration, and oligopolistic competition. A few large vertically integrated firms wield power and control over material sources and production facilities. Restructuring of the copper industry in Arizona illustrates the interaction of changing corporate strategies and shifting market structures in primary production. A weakening o…
Foreign Banking in the American Urban System of Financial Organization
Foreign banks in the United States are major sources of investment capital and producers of financial services. Foreign banking is localized in a few metropolises. Six major international banking centers serve as American nodes in the system of global flows of capital and financial services. The asset structure, size, type, and national origins of foreign banks in these centers reveal investment motives. New York is the primary foreign banking co…
Industrial geography
Secondary city invention: Internal resources versus agglomeration allures
Empirical investigations of the geography of invention, especially regional knowledge production functions, attempt to pinpoint determinants of patenting intensity. They depict organizations reflexively locating their assets in response to place-based attributes. The inordinate concentration of patent generation in large metropolitan areas amplifies this perspective. However, organizational formation, patenting behaviours, and general economic de…
Inventive Megaregions of the United States: Technological Composition and Location
Urban distinctiveness occurs in both technological and geographic space. This article explores spatial associations in the locational distribution of subcategories of patents across U.S. metropolitan areas. I converted patent counts to location quotients and used nonspatial methods to compare concentration levels of patents (Gini coefficients) and to identify groups of patents that tend to colocate (principal components analysis). The results sho…
Sectoral differences in the determinants of the location of foreign direct investment in American manufacturing
Economic Restructuring in Primary Industries: Transaction Costs and Corporate Vertical Integration in the Arizona Copper Industry, 1980–1991
The recent restructuring of the copper industry in Arizona offers a unique opportunity to evaluate the role of transaction costs in the reorganization of production systems. Contrary to popular assertions that mass production is declining in importance all across the economic landscape, our study documents the existence of firms that are exploiting economies of scale and intensifying vertical integration. Firms that dominate the restructuring pro…
Industrial geography
Foreign direct investment in American service sectors: Source country contrasts and locational determinants
The Identification of Industrial Complexes
The objective of this paper is to reassess the value of principal components analysis as a technique for identifying regional industrial complexes, taking explicit account of the different kinds of relationships that are possible among industries. The empirical evidence offered here tends to confirm recent criticism of principal components analysis as a means for detecting vertical relationships, but it demonstrates the usefulness of this method …
Linkages and Foreign Direct Investment in the United States
The intraregional material linkages of a sample of foreign-owned plants in the U.S. are examined. Strong dependence on the domestic economy is revealed at both regional and national levels. Degree of domestic integration is found to be related to a variety of technological, market entry, nationality, and size characteristics of the plants
The role of foreign direct investment in the development of regional industrial systems: Current knowledge and suggestions for a future American research agenda
Ó hUallacháin B. (1985) The role of foreign direct investment in the development of regional industrial systems: current knowledge and suggestions for a future American research agenda, Reg. Studies 20, 151–162. The role of foreign direct investment in American regional industrial systems differs from the experiences found in other countries. Foreign investment in the US is increasing rapidly outside of the traditional industrial heartland, it is…
Statistical Approaches to Structural Change in Regional Interindustry Models
The conventional approach to assessing structural change in regional input - output tables is to measure the impact of coefficient change on the estimation of outputs and multipliers. The methods developed and tested in this paper focus exclusively on the coefficients. Univariate and multivariate statistical analyses can be used to identify and measure various types of changes ranging from coefficient instability to changes in interindustry relat…
Regional and Technological Implications of the Recent Buildup in American Defense Spending
American defense policy emphasizes technological sophistication of weapons and equipment. The current military buildup focusing on modernization of military hardware is influencing the character of American regional change. Much of the high-technology manufacturing growth in California. Texas, and New England is related to the distribution of Department of Defense contracts. The particular nature of the current military expansion has aggravated t…
Industrial geography
The Location of US Manufacturing: Some Empirical Evidence on Recent Geographical Shifts
In this paper, current theories and hypotheses of industrial location are tested, using a cross-sectional regression analysis of employment change in total manufacturing, and in five high-technology sectors in each of 264 Metropolitan Statistical Areas, for the period 1977-84. Agglomeration forces and market opportunities, unions, wages, climate, and university research parks are best used to explain employment growth. Employment losses are relat…
Industrial geography
Sectoral Clustering and Growth in American Metropolitan Areas
Ó HUALLACHÁIN B. (1991) Sectoral clustering and growth in American metropolitan areas, Reg. Studies 25, 411–426. The purposes of this paper are to develop a theory of industrial clustering of information intensive industries, identify intermetropolitan clusters of sectors in the US, to test the relationship between the clustering pattern and metropolitan employment and income growth, and to interpret temporal changes in the clusters. The empirica…
The Location and Growth of Business and Professional Services in American Metropolitan Areas, 1976–1986
The economic base of American metropolitan areas relies increasingly on business and professional services. We explore the causes for fast growth of these sectors in metropolitan areas for 1976–86. Business and professional services produce new types of inputs to a large number of sectors. They encompass far more than externalization of activities once produced internally by manufacturers. We emphasize localization of business and professional se…
Industrial geography
Sectoral growth patterns at the metropolitan level: An evaluation of economic development incentives
Industrial geography
The Restructuring of the US Steel Industry: Changes in the Location of Production and Employment
Recent reorganization of the US iron and steel industry provides a useful setting for an analysis of the relationship between industrial location and institutional forms. Regression analysis shows that institutional shifts in the organization of production dominated geographical shifts in employment and product value as integrated maxi-mills sought to raise productivity. The reorganization of production includes mill abandonment, increased subcon…
Economic Restructuring in Primary Industries: Transaction Costs and Corporate Vertical Integration in the Arizona Copper Industry, 1980–1991
The recent restructuring of the copper industry in Arizona offers a unique opportunity to evaluate the role of transaction costs in the reorganization of production systems. Contrary to popular assertions that mass production is declining in importance all across the economic landscape, our study documents the existence of firms that are exploiting economies of scale and intensifying vertical integration. Firms that dominate the restructuring pro…
Foreign Banking in the American Urban System of Financial Organization
Foreign banks in the United States are major sources of investment capital and producers of financial services. Foreign banking is localized in a few metropolises. Six major international banking centers serve as American nodes in the system of global flows of capital and financial services. The asset structure, size, type, and national origins of foreign banks in these centers reveal investment motives. New York is the primary foreign banking co…
Sectoral Differences in the Determinants of the Location of Foreign Direct Investment in American Manufacturing
Foreign direct investment in American service sectors: Source country contrasts and locational determinants
Sectoral differences in the determinants of the location of foreign direct investment in American manufacturing
Foreign Direct Investment in American Service Sectors: Source Country Contrasts and Locational Determinants
Restructuring of Primary Industries: Technology, Labor, and Corporate Strategy and Control in the Arizona Copper Industry
Industrial restructuring in the primary sector highlights the continued exploitation of economies of scale, vertical integration, and oligopolistic competition. A few large vertically integrated firms wield power and control over material sources and production facilities. Restructuring of the copper industry in Arizona illustrates the interaction of changing corporate strategies and shifting market structures in primary production. A weakening o…
Acquisition versus Greenfield Investment: The Location and Growth of Japanese Manufacturers in the United States
O HUALLACHAIN B. and REID N. (1997) Acquisition versus greenfield investment: the location and growth of Japanese manufacturers in the United States, Reg. Studies 31, 403-416. Investigating foreign direct investment by principal modes of entry helps explain the location of Japanese manufacturers in the United States. Japanese greenfield start-ups and acquired plants had distinct interregional distributions in different decades. We use ordinary le…
Spatial Convergence and Spillovers in American Invention
Endogenous growth theory places spatial knowledge spillovers at the center of national technological progress. Advances in spatial autocorrelation and regression analyses provide methods to assess the influence of these spillovers on the geographical distribution and growth of invention. This article investigates interstate inequality and convergence in per capita patenting in the United States in the period 1963–2003. We analyze both the complet…
Rethinking the regional knowledge production function
The knowledge production function is a questionable device for identifying the determinants of commercial patenting. Adapted from firm level analysis, it implicitly assumes that some mechanism exists to transfer research and development inputs across institutions to maximize invention output. Augmenting the approach with regional structure variables risks confounding causes and effects, because these conditions determine research and development …
Producer Services in the Urban Core and Suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona
Recent research shows growing concentration of corporate decision-making functions in metropolitan cores and strong relationships between managerial activities and producer services. The paper investigates the location of 12 disaggregated producer service sectors in Phoenix, Arizona. Concentration of legal, accounting and computer services underpin the economy of the inner core. Second-order unweighted and employment-weighted distance-based clust…
Economics (25 works) · Business (23 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (23 works) · Economic geography (22 works) · Geography (17 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (11 works) · Metropolitan area (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Firm Innovation and Growth (7 works)