Aglomerações de serviço no Brasil: uma proposta de classificação de acordo com os processos econômicos

Abstract

Within a context of global integration, the issue of geographic concentration of economic activities has gained significant importance in recent years in the strategy literature. In the case of service activities, location is key aspect of corporate competitive advantage. However, geographic clustering is not much explored in the literature, especially in Brazil. Furthermore, the studies are based on classification criteria do not reflect the diversity of the sector as well as interaction with the activities of this industry. Therefore, the objective of this work was to map the location of service activities in Brazil in a systematic way, based on a proposed classification of services, according to the economic process to which they relate. Thus, the main contribution of this work is methodological we propose a model for the classification of settlements according to the categories of pure service, processing and exchange and circulation. We identified a total of 12.201clusters of services: the majority (60%) refers to the rank of pure service, followed by service category and traffic exchange with (27%), with processing and services (13%) . From the perspective of macro-regions, the Southeast has the largest representation, with a total of 5.287 clusters, representing 43% of all settlements. In this region, the three categories of service have significant involvement, in contrast to other regions, which confirms the high degree of development of the region's economic base,which explains the strength of this region, since the higher the composition of sectors, the greater the local economy. In this sense, the main findings of this study explain the economic strength of service activities in the southeast of the country, especially in large urban centers like Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, between the counties that contain a higher concentration of service activities , especially in regard to knowledge intensive activities and financial services.