Balázs Lengyel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1474477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Balázs Lengyel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Balázs |
| FAMILY NAME | Lengyel |
| SIGNATURE | LENGYEL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Business |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5196-5599 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Social network benefits for cluster firms: A co-worker mobility approach
Regional clusters facilitate social interaction and learning across firms. Here, we assess how social networks of firms influence their competitiveness in relation to cluster- and firm-characteristics. Using survey and administrative data, we simulate co-worker networks that, following the mobility of employees, generate links across companies. Analyzing Sweden’s ICT firms over 20 years, we find that inter-firm co-worker ties, even across compani…
Quantifying barriers of urban mobility
Audience selection for maximizing social influence
Viral marketing campaigns target primarily those individuals who are central in social networks and hence have social influence. Marketing events, however, may attract diverse audience. Despite the importance of event marketing, the influence of heterogeneous target groups is not well understood yet. In this paper, we define the Audience Selection (AS) problem in which different sets of agents need to be evaluated and compared based on their soci…
Income-related spatial concentration of individual social capital in cities
Social connections that span across diverse urban neighborhoods can support prosperity by mobilizing social capital. However, there is limited evidence on the spatial structure of individual social capital inside cities. This paper demonstrates that social capital measured by online social connections is spatially more concentrated for residents of lower-income neighborhoods than for residents of higher-income neighborhoods. We map the micro-geog…
In memoriam Varga Attila (1958-2023)
Understanding Regional Branching: Knowledge Diversification via Inventor and Firm Collaboration Networks
The diversification of regions into new technologies is driven by the degree of relatedness to existing capabilities already present in the region. In cases where opportunities for diversification are rather limited, external knowledge that spills over from neighboring regions or from farther away might become an important driver of regional diversification. Despite the relative importance of interregional knowledge flows via collaborative work, …
Finding early adopters of innovation in social networks
Social networks play a fundamental role in the diffusion of innovation through peers' influence on adoption. Thus, network position including a wide range of network centrality measures has been used to describe individuals' affinity to adopt an innovation and their ability to propagate diffusion. Yet, social networks are assortative in terms of susceptibility and influence and in terms of network centralities as well. This makes the identificati…
Repeated collaboration of inventors across European regions
This paper explores the spatial patterns and underlying determinants of repeated inventor collaboration across European NUTS 3 regions. It is found that only a small fraction of co-inventor linkages across regions are repeated, while community detection reveals that these collaborations are clustered in geographical space more intensively compared with collaboration in general. Additional results from gravity modelling indicate that links in the …
Reducing automation risk through career mobility: Where and for whom
Automation risk prevails less in large cities compared to small cities but little is known about the drivers of this emerging urban phenomenon. A major challenge is that automation risk is quantified by work-related tasks that allows for measurement through occupation, which is in turn implicitly related to local economic structure and to individual career paths. This paper examines the role of working in cities on changes in automation risk thro…
Innovative mergers and acquisitions and the broker regions of European integration
Cross-regional mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transfer control and diffuse knowledge across space, which facilitates the integration of business systems. We analyse about 40,000 cross-regional acquisitions in Europe completed between 2003 and 2017 and distinguish innovative and non-innovative M&A. Both types of deals cluster into communities constituted by countries or groups of neighbouring countries. However, an increasing proportion of deals c…
Brokering the core and the periphery: Creative success and collaboration networks in the film industry
In collaboration-based creative industries, such as film production, creators in the network core enjoy prestige and legitimacy that are key for creative success. However, core creators are challenged to maintain diverse access to new ideas or alternative views that often emerge from the network periphery. In this paper, we demonstrate that creators in the network core can increase the probability of their creative success by brokering peripheral…
Related trade variety, foreign-domestic spillovers and regional employment in Hungary
This paper investigates the role of extra-regional capabilities in regional economic development in a Central and Eastern European context. This is done by analysing the association between the related variety of manufacturing import and export of domestic- and foreign-owned firms on the one hand, and regional employment in manufacturing export on the other. By means of a panel regression framework applied to the Hungarian microregions between 20…
Generációváltás és nemzetközi teljesítmény a hazai regionális tudományban
Foreign-owned firms as agents of structural change in regions
This paper investigates the role of different types of firms in related and unrelated diversification in regions, in particular the extent to which foreign-owned firms induce structural change in the manufacturing capability base of 67 Hungarian regions between 2000 and 2009. Doing so, it connects more tightly the literatures of evolutionary economic geography and international business. The results indicate that foreign-owned firms deviate more …
Co-worker Networks and Agglomeration Externalities
The present article provides an initial systematic analysis of how social networks influence productivity in regional agglomerations. This is accomplished by means of matched employer–employee data for the entire Swedish economy for the period 1990–2008, allowing us to construct a weighted co-worker network with aggregated tie weights on the plant level. We find evidence that increasing density of the plant-level network has a positive effect on …
Creation and persistence of ties in cluster knowledge networks
Knowledge networks are important to understand learning in industry clusters but surprisingly little is known about what drives the formation, persistence and dissolution of ties. Applying stochastic actor-oriented models on longitudinal relational data from a mature cluster in a medium-tech industry, we show that triadic closure and geographical proximity increase the probability of tie creation but does not influence tie persistence. Cognitive …
Co-worker networks, labour mobility and productivity growth in regions
The mobility of workers is an important source of regional dynamics, but the effect of mobility on regional productivity growth is not straightforward, as some firms tend to win while others lose from mobility. In the present paper, we argue that the co-worker networks across plants that are established by labour moves are important for both local learning opportunities and job matching quality and should hence facilitate regional growth. We ther…
Online Social Networks, Location, and the Dual Effect of Distance from the Centre
Online social networks (OSN) are major platforms of ICT‐enabled communication, supporting place‐independent social life. However, recent findings suggest that the geographical location of users strongly affects network topology. Therefore, OSNs may be simultaneously related to locations and also unlocked from offline geographies. Our paper addresses this dual‐faced phenomenon, analysing the location‐specific effect on OSN diffusion and OSN usage.…
Egy online közösségi háló offline földrajza, avagy a távolság és a méret szerepének magyar empíriái
Az információs és kommunikációs technológiákon alapuló információcserében napjaink vezető platformjai az online közösségi hálók, melyek a felhasználóik számára a helytől független társadalmi élet lehetőségét nyújtják. A legutóbbi kutatások ugyanakkor arra utalnak, hogy a felhasználók és online barátaik valós világbeli földrajzi helyzete mégis meghatározó a hálózati topológia formálódásában. Az online közösségi hálók így vélhetően egyidejűleg tükr…
Regionális és helyi gazdaságfejlesztés az evolúciós gazdaságföldrajz szemszögéből
A tanulmány célja kettős. Egyrészt a magyar nyelven eddig nem kellő mértékben tárgyalt evolúciós gazdaságföldrajz fő fogalmait tekinti át, gazdaságföldrajzban elfoglalt helyét mutatja be. Másrészt az evolúciós gondolatok segítségével értelmezi a regionális és helyi gazdaságfejlesztés egyik kulcskérdését: milyen logikai kapcsolat található a helyi intézmények, az érintett felek tanulása és a gazdaságpolitikai beavatkozások hatása között
A távolság halálának új vizsgálata: Kiberhely, földrajzi és kapcsolati közelség
Ez a tanulmány a földrajzi távolság és különböző kapcsolatiközelség-típusok hatását elemzi az internet-infrastruktúra kiépülésére vonatkozóan. Habár számos mondás kering a szakirodalomban arról, hogy az internet a „földrajz végét” jelenti, a fizikai távolság és az internet közötti kapcsolatot még nem vizsgálták részletekbe menően. Tanulmányunk a gazdaságföldrajzi irodalom legújabb közelségvizsgálataira épül, és elemzésének célja bemutatni, hogy a…
Creative Occupations and Regional Development in Hungary: Mobility of Talent in a One-centred Transition Economy
This paper gives an example of how human capital contributes to regional development in a small transition economy. We add new categories of creative occupation in order to have better possibilities for regional education level-creative class comparisons. Efforts are also taken to handle mobility of talent by the type of knowledge being exploited in the occupations. The data are collected from 168 Hungarian sub-regions from 2001 and from 20 count…
Regional Innovation Systems in Hungary: The Failing Synergy at the National Level
n In this paper we use entropy statistics to measure the synergies of knowledge exploration, knowledge exploitation, and organizational control in Hungary. We categorized the firms in terms of sub-regions, industrial sectors, and firm size. Configurational information among these distributions is the indicator of the synergy in the system. The results indicate that three regimes were generated in the Hungarian transition period with different dyn…
Kreatív foglalkozások és regionális tudásbázis: Fogalmak, folyamatok és területi összefüggések
A tudásalapú gazdaság területi vizsgálataiban egyre nagyobb jelentőséget kap az a kérdés, hogy a munkaerő képzettségi szintje vagy a foglalkozások jellege eredményezi-e a régiók kiemelkedését. Tanulmányunkban bemutatjuk a regionális innovációs rendszerek tudásbázisának foglalkozási oldalú megközelítését, és saját kategóriákat vezetünk be a kreatív munkaerő és tudásbázis számbavételére. Ezekre a kategóriákra alapozva tekintjük át a kreatív munkaer…
Magyarország a globális K+F térképén. Fejlődő országok a multinacionális vállalatok változó K+F stratégiájában
Tanulmányunkban a multinacionális vállalatok K+F telephelyválasztásának, a K+F tevékenység kihelyezésének és kiszervezésének legújabb tendenciáit tekintjük át, bemutatva azokat a fejleményeket, amelyek lehetővé tették Magyarország és más fejlődő országok számára a nemzetközi K+F munkamegosztásba való bekapcsolódást. A tanulmány második részében a rendelkezésre álló statisztikai adatok alapján a magyarországi K+F szerkezeti változásait elemezzük, …
Foreign-owned firms as agents of structural change in regions
This paper investigates the role of different types of firms in related and unrelated diversification in regions, in particular the extent to which foreign-owned firms induce structural change in the manufacturing capability base of 67 Hungarian regions between 2000 and 2009. Doing so, it connects more tightly the literatures of evolutionary economic geography and international business. The results indicate that foreign-owned firms deviate more …
Regional Innovation Systems in Hungary: The Failing Synergy at the National Level
n In this paper we use entropy statistics to measure the synergies of knowledge exploration, knowledge exploitation, and organizational control in Hungary. We categorized the firms in terms of sub-regions, industrial sectors, and firm size. Configurational information among these distributions is the indicator of the synergy in the system. The results indicate that three regimes were generated in the Hungarian transition period with different dyn…
Co-worker Networks and Agglomeration Externalities
The present article provides an initial systematic analysis of how social networks influence productivity in regional agglomerations. This is accomplished by means of matched employer–employee data for the entire Swedish economy for the period 1990–2008, allowing us to construct a weighted co-worker network with aggregated tie weights on the plant level. We find evidence that increasing density of the plant-level network has a positive effect on …
Creation and persistence of ties in cluster knowledge networks
Knowledge networks are important to understand learning in industry clusters but surprisingly little is known about what drives the formation, persistence and dissolution of ties. Applying stochastic actor-oriented models on longitudinal relational data from a mature cluster in a medium-tech industry, we show that triadic closure and geographical proximity increase the probability of tie creation but does not influence tie persistence. Cognitive …
Understanding Regional Branching: Knowledge Diversification via Inventor and Firm Collaboration Networks
The diversification of regions into new technologies is driven by the degree of relatedness to existing capabilities already present in the region. In cases where opportunities for diversification are rather limited, external knowledge that spills over from neighboring regions or from farther away might become an important driver of regional diversification. Despite the relative importance of interregional knowledge flows via collaborative work, …
Reducing automation risk through career mobility: Where and for whom
Automation risk prevails less in large cities compared to small cities but little is known about the drivers of this emerging urban phenomenon. A major challenge is that automation risk is quantified by work-related tasks that allows for measurement through occupation, which is in turn implicitly related to local economic structure and to individual career paths. This paper examines the role of working in cities on changes in automation risk thro…
Innovative mergers and acquisitions and the broker regions of European integration
Cross-regional mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transfer control and diffuse knowledge across space, which facilitates the integration of business systems. We analyse about 40,000 cross-regional acquisitions in Europe completed between 2003 and 2017 and distinguish innovative and non-innovative M&A. Both types of deals cluster into communities constituted by countries or groups of neighbouring countries. However, an increasing proportion of deals c…
Co-worker networks, labour mobility and productivity growth in regions
The mobility of workers is an important source of regional dynamics, but the effect of mobility on regional productivity growth is not straightforward, as some firms tend to win while others lose from mobility. In the present paper, we argue that the co-worker networks across plants that are established by labour moves are important for both local learning opportunities and job matching quality and should hence facilitate regional growth. We ther…
A tudásteremtés lokalitása: Hallgatólagos tudás és helyi tudástranszfer
A tudás egyre gyakrabban mint erőforrás szerepel napjaink területfejlesztési elképzeléseiben. A tudásalapú társadalom, gazdaság kialakítása intenzíven felvetette a tudás fogalmának, jellemzőinek közgazdaságtudományi újragondolását. A tudás egyre jelentősebb szerepet tölt be a regionális tudomány vizsgálatainál is: a regionális egyenlőtlenségek kérdését egyre többen az eltérő tudástőkével, az ehhez kapcsolódó társadalmi tőkével magyarázzák. A regi…
A külföldi érdekeltségű vállalkozások és az egyetemek kapcsolatai Győrött, Miskolcon és Szegeden
A tanulmányban áttekintjük az egyetemek helyi gazdaságra gyakorolt hatásának elméleti alapjait, azok jellemzőit a három egyetemen. A külföldi érdekeltségű vállalkozások letelepedési motivációiból kiindulva igyekszünk rámutatni a K+F tevékenységek hazai régiókba való kihelyezésének összefüggéseire. Best practice jelleggel bemutatjuk a Győrött, Miskolcon és Szegeden létrejött oktatási és kutatási együttműködéseket
Magyarország a globális K+F térképén. Fejlődő országok a multinacionális vállalatok változó K+F stratégiájában
Tanulmányunkban a multinacionális vállalatok K+F telephelyválasztásának, a K+F tevékenység kihelyezésének és kiszervezésének legújabb tendenciáit tekintjük át, bemutatva azokat a fejleményeket, amelyek lehetővé tették Magyarország és más fejlődő országok számára a nemzetközi K+F munkamegosztásba való bekapcsolódást. A tanulmány második részében a rendelkezésre álló statisztikai adatok alapján a magyarországi K+F szerkezeti változásait elemezzük, …
Kreatív foglalkozások és regionális tudásbázis: Fogalmak, folyamatok és területi összefüggések
A tudásalapú gazdaság területi vizsgálataiban egyre nagyobb jelentőséget kap az a kérdés, hogy a munkaerő képzettségi szintje vagy a foglalkozások jellege eredményezi-e a régiók kiemelkedését. Tanulmányunkban bemutatjuk a regionális innovációs rendszerek tudásbázisának foglalkozási oldalú megközelítését, és saját kategóriákat vezetünk be a kreatív munkaerő és tudásbázis számbavételére. Ezekre a kategóriákra alapozva tekintjük át a kreatív munkaer…
Regional Innovation Systems in Hungary: The Failing Synergy at the National Level
n In this paper we use entropy statistics to measure the synergies of knowledge exploration, knowledge exploitation, and organizational control in Hungary. We categorized the firms in terms of sub-regions, industrial sectors, and firm size. Configurational information among these distributions is the indicator of the synergy in the system. The results indicate that three regimes were generated in the Hungarian transition period with different dyn…
Creative Occupations and Regional Development in Hungary: Mobility of Talent in a One-centred Transition Economy
This paper gives an example of how human capital contributes to regional development in a small transition economy. We add new categories of creative occupation in order to have better possibilities for regional education level-creative class comparisons. Efforts are also taken to handle mobility of talent by the type of knowledge being exploited in the occupations. The data are collected from 168 Hungarian sub-regions from 2001 and from 20 count…
Regionális és helyi gazdaságfejlesztés az evolúciós gazdaságföldrajz szemszögéből
A tanulmány célja kettős. Egyrészt a magyar nyelven eddig nem kellő mértékben tárgyalt evolúciós gazdaságföldrajz fő fogalmait tekinti át, gazdaságföldrajzban elfoglalt helyét mutatja be. Másrészt az evolúciós gondolatok segítségével értelmezi a regionális és helyi gazdaságfejlesztés egyik kulcskérdését: milyen logikai kapcsolat található a helyi intézmények, az érintett felek tanulása és a gazdaságpolitikai beavatkozások hatása között
A távolság halálának új vizsgálata: Kiberhely, földrajzi és kapcsolati közelség
Ez a tanulmány a földrajzi távolság és különböző kapcsolatiközelség-típusok hatását elemzi az internet-infrastruktúra kiépülésére vonatkozóan. Habár számos mondás kering a szakirodalomban arról, hogy az internet a „földrajz végét” jelenti, a fizikai távolság és az internet közötti kapcsolatot még nem vizsgálták részletekbe menően. Tanulmányunk a gazdaságföldrajzi irodalom legújabb közelségvizsgálataira épül, és elemzésének célja bemutatni, hogy a…
Egy online közösségi háló offline földrajza, avagy a távolság és a méret szerepének magyar empíriái
Az információs és kommunikációs technológiákon alapuló információcserében napjaink vezető platformjai az online közösségi hálók, melyek a felhasználóik számára a helytől független társadalmi élet lehetőségét nyújtják. A legutóbbi kutatások ugyanakkor arra utalnak, hogy a felhasználók és online barátaik valós világbeli földrajzi helyzete mégis meghatározó a hálózati topológia formálódásában. Az online közösségi hálók így vélhetően egyidejűleg tükr…
Co-worker networks, labour mobility and productivity growth in regions
The mobility of workers is an important source of regional dynamics, but the effect of mobility on regional productivity growth is not straightforward, as some firms tend to win while others lose from mobility. In the present paper, we argue that the co-worker networks across plants that are established by labour moves are important for both local learning opportunities and job matching quality and should hence facilitate regional growth. We ther…
Online Social Networks, Location, and the Dual Effect of Distance from the Centre
Online social networks (OSN) are major platforms of ICT‐enabled communication, supporting place‐independent social life. However, recent findings suggest that the geographical location of users strongly affects network topology. Therefore, OSNs may be simultaneously related to locations and also unlocked from offline geographies. Our paper addresses this dual‐faced phenomenon, analysing the location‐specific effect on OSN diffusion and OSN usage.…
Creation and persistence of ties in cluster knowledge networks
Knowledge networks are important to understand learning in industry clusters but surprisingly little is known about what drives the formation, persistence and dissolution of ties. Applying stochastic actor-oriented models on longitudinal relational data from a mature cluster in a medium-tech industry, we show that triadic closure and geographical proximity increase the probability of tie creation but does not influence tie persistence. Cognitive …
Foreign-owned firms as agents of structural change in regions
This paper investigates the role of different types of firms in related and unrelated diversification in regions, in particular the extent to which foreign-owned firms induce structural change in the manufacturing capability base of 67 Hungarian regions between 2000 and 2009. Doing so, it connects more tightly the literatures of evolutionary economic geography and international business. The results indicate that foreign-owned firms deviate more …
Co-worker Networks and Agglomeration Externalities
The present article provides an initial systematic analysis of how social networks influence productivity in regional agglomerations. This is accomplished by means of matched employer–employee data for the entire Swedish economy for the period 1990–2008, allowing us to construct a weighted co-worker network with aggregated tie weights on the plant level. We find evidence that increasing density of the plant-level network has a positive effect on …
Brokering the core and the periphery: Creative success and collaboration networks in the film industry
In collaboration-based creative industries, such as film production, creators in the network core enjoy prestige and legitimacy that are key for creative success. However, core creators are challenged to maintain diverse access to new ideas or alternative views that often emerge from the network periphery. In this paper, we demonstrate that creators in the network core can increase the probability of their creative success by brokering peripheral…
Related trade variety, foreign-domestic spillovers and regional employment in Hungary
This paper investigates the role of extra-regional capabilities in regional economic development in a Central and Eastern European context. This is done by analysing the association between the related variety of manufacturing import and export of domestic- and foreign-owned firms on the one hand, and regional employment in manufacturing export on the other. By means of a panel regression framework applied to the Hungarian microregions between 20…
Generációváltás és nemzetközi teljesítmény a hazai regionális tudományban
Repeated collaboration of inventors across European regions
This paper explores the spatial patterns and underlying determinants of repeated inventor collaboration across European NUTS 3 regions. It is found that only a small fraction of co-inventor linkages across regions are repeated, while community detection reveals that these collaborations are clustered in geographical space more intensively compared with collaboration in general. Additional results from gravity modelling indicate that links in the …
Reducing automation risk through career mobility: Where and for whom
Automation risk prevails less in large cities compared to small cities but little is known about the drivers of this emerging urban phenomenon. A major challenge is that automation risk is quantified by work-related tasks that allows for measurement through occupation, which is in turn implicitly related to local economic structure and to individual career paths. This paper examines the role of working in cities on changes in automation risk thro…
Innovative mergers and acquisitions and the broker regions of European integration
Cross-regional mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transfer control and diffuse knowledge across space, which facilitates the integration of business systems. We analyse about 40,000 cross-regional acquisitions in Europe completed between 2003 and 2017 and distinguish innovative and non-innovative M&A. Both types of deals cluster into communities constituted by countries or groups of neighbouring countries. However, an increasing proportion of deals c…
Finding early adopters of innovation in social networks
Social networks play a fundamental role in the diffusion of innovation through peers' influence on adoption. Thus, network position including a wide range of network centrality measures has been used to describe individuals' affinity to adopt an innovation and their ability to propagate diffusion. Yet, social networks are assortative in terms of susceptibility and influence and in terms of network centralities as well. This makes the identificati…
Income-related spatial concentration of individual social capital in cities
Social connections that span across diverse urban neighborhoods can support prosperity by mobilizing social capital. However, there is limited evidence on the spatial structure of individual social capital inside cities. This paper demonstrates that social capital measured by online social connections is spatially more concentrated for residents of lower-income neighborhoods than for residents of higher-income neighborhoods. We map the micro-geog…
In memoriam Varga Attila (1958-2023)
Understanding Regional Branching: Knowledge Diversification via Inventor and Firm Collaboration Networks
The diversification of regions into new technologies is driven by the degree of relatedness to existing capabilities already present in the region. In cases where opportunities for diversification are rather limited, external knowledge that spills over from neighboring regions or from farther away might become an important driver of regional diversification. Despite the relative importance of interregional knowledge flows via collaborative work, …
Audience selection for maximizing social influence
Viral marketing campaigns target primarily those individuals who are central in social networks and hence have social influence. Marketing events, however, may attract diverse audience. Despite the importance of event marketing, the influence of heterogeneous target groups is not well understood yet. In this paper, we define the Audience Selection (AS) problem in which different sets of agents need to be evaluated and compared based on their soci…
Business (13 works) · Economic geography (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Hungarian Social, Economic and Educational Studies (8 works) · Regional Development and Policy (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Innovation and Knowledge Management (5 works)