Patrick N O'Farrell
Biographic Data
| ID | 5521908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick N O'Farrell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick N |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Farrell |
| SIGNATURE | FARRELL P N O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Business Service Firms in Two Peripheral Economies
In this article, we present a comparative analysis of the competitiveness and performance of business service companies in Scotland and Ireland. Several dimensions of performance are investigated for five industries: market research, management consultancy, product design, graphic design and advertising. Value‐added per person is almost identical in the two areas, but Irish offices achieved a much greater degree of export orientation (16% of sale…
Business Services and their Impact upon Client Performance
O'FARRELL P. N. and MOFFAT L. A. R. (1995) Business services and their impact upon client performance: an exploratory interregional analysis, Reg. Studies 29, 111–124. Despite the importance of knowledge-intensive business services to economic development at the national, regional and firm level, there is scant evidence as to their effectiveness. This paper discusses the impact over 200 individual external business services upon the performance o…
Inter‐firm Comparisons in Industrial Research
Entrepreneurship and regional development
O'Farrell P. N. (1986) Entrepreneurship and regional development: some conceptual issues, Reg. Studies 20, 565–574. This paper attempts to clarify and improve understanding of the concept of entrepreneurship in national and regional development. The nature of entrepreneurship is discussed and it is shown that the entrepreneur and the capitalist are conceptually distinct; that it is useful to differentiate between the entrepreneurial and manageria…
A spatial and temporal analysis of second home ownership in West Wales
The Assumptions of the Linear Regression Model
The paper is prompted by certain apparent deficiences both in the discussion of the regression model in instructional sources for geographers and in the actual empirical application of the model by geographical writers. In the first part of the paper the assumptions of the two regression models, the 'fixed X' and the 'random X', are outlined in detail, and the relative importance of each of the assumptions for the variety of purposes for which re…
Continuous Regularities and Discontinuities in the Central Place System
population size continuum. Moreover, in testing the validity of the most fundamental proposition of Christaller's modelF-a hierarchical ordering of central places-most workers have not derived a specific scale against which all centres can be measured and ranked.3 In this study a technique for measuring the centrality of functions and grading centres has been derived to rank centres in Co. Tipperary, Ireland; and in addition the functional charac…
The Assumptions of the Linear Regression Model
The paper is prompted by certain apparent deficiences both in the discussion of the regression model in instructional sources for geographers and in the actual empirical application of the model by geographical writers. In the first part of the paper the assumptions of the two regression models, the 'fixed X' and the 'random X', are outlined in detail, and the relative importance of each of the assumptions for the variety of purposes for which re…
Inter‐firm Comparisons in Industrial Research
Business Services and their Impact upon Client Performance
O'FARRELL P. N. and MOFFAT L. A. R. (1995) Business services and their impact upon client performance: an exploratory interregional analysis, Reg. Studies 29, 111–124. Despite the importance of knowledge-intensive business services to economic development at the national, regional and firm level, there is scant evidence as to their effectiveness. This paper discusses the impact over 200 individual external business services upon the performance o…
Entrepreneurship and regional development
O'Farrell P. N. (1986) Entrepreneurship and regional development: some conceptual issues, Reg. Studies 20, 565–574. This paper attempts to clarify and improve understanding of the concept of entrepreneurship in national and regional development. The nature of entrepreneurship is discussed and it is shown that the entrepreneur and the capitalist are conceptually distinct; that it is useful to differentiate between the entrepreneurial and manageria…
A spatial and temporal analysis of second home ownership in West Wales
Continuous Regularities and Discontinuities in the Central Place System
population size continuum. Moreover, in testing the validity of the most fundamental proposition of Christaller's modelF-a hierarchical ordering of central places-most workers have not derived a specific scale against which all centres can be measured and ranked.3 In this study a technique for measuring the centrality of functions and grading centres has been derived to rank centres in Co. Tipperary, Ireland; and in addition the functional charac…
Business Service Firms in Two Peripheral Economies
In this article, we present a comparative analysis of the competitiveness and performance of business service companies in Scotland and Ireland. Several dimensions of performance are investigated for five industries: market research, management consultancy, product design, graphic design and advertising. Value‐added per person is almost identical in the two areas, but Irish offices achieved a much greater degree of export orientation (16% of sale…
Continuous Regularities and Discontinuities in the Central Place System
population size continuum. Moreover, in testing the validity of the most fundamental proposition of Christaller's modelF-a hierarchical ordering of central places-most workers have not derived a specific scale against which all centres can be measured and ranked.3 In this study a technique for measuring the centrality of functions and grading centres has been derived to rank centres in Co. Tipperary, Ireland; and in addition the functional charac…
The Assumptions of the Linear Regression Model
The paper is prompted by certain apparent deficiences both in the discussion of the regression model in instructional sources for geographers and in the actual empirical application of the model by geographical writers. In the first part of the paper the assumptions of the two regression models, the 'fixed X' and the 'random X', are outlined in detail, and the relative importance of each of the assumptions for the variety of purposes for which re…
A spatial and temporal analysis of second home ownership in West Wales
Entrepreneurship and regional development
O'Farrell P. N. (1986) Entrepreneurship and regional development: some conceptual issues, Reg. Studies 20, 565–574. This paper attempts to clarify and improve understanding of the concept of entrepreneurship in national and regional development. The nature of entrepreneurship is discussed and it is shown that the entrepreneur and the capitalist are conceptually distinct; that it is useful to differentiate between the entrepreneurial and manageria…
Inter‐firm Comparisons in Industrial Research
Business Service Firms in Two Peripheral Economies
In this article, we present a comparative analysis of the competitiveness and performance of business service companies in Scotland and Ireland. Several dimensions of performance are investigated for five industries: market research, management consultancy, product design, graphic design and advertising. Value‐added per person is almost identical in the two areas, but Irish offices achieved a much greater degree of export orientation (16% of sale…
Business Services and their Impact upon Client Performance
O'FARRELL P. N. and MOFFAT L. A. R. (1995) Business services and their impact upon client performance: an exploratory interregional analysis, Reg. Studies 29, 111–124. Despite the importance of knowledge-intensive business services to economic development at the national, regional and firm level, there is scant evidence as to their effectiveness. This paper discusses the impact over 200 individual external business services upon the performance o…
Economics (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Regional science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 works) · Econometrics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)