20世纪90年代以来,作为服务业中重要一支的生产性服务业正成为推动我国大城市经济增长的重要力量和体现城市经济职能的主要方面。本文在对产业集聚和服务业区位等相关理论回顾的基础上,对目前国内外生产性服务业空间集聚的主要研究内容和研究方法进行了详尽梳理。总体来看,围绕着区域和大都市内两个尺度,生产性服务业空间集聚的研究取得了明显进展,但同时尚存在一些不足:①偏重于空间集聚的格局研究,对其演变过程研究相对薄弱;②空间集聚的机理研究稍显不足,缺乏规律的总结;③研究方法上大多将制造业集聚的测度模型移植到生产性服务业,其适用性和针对性尚需进一步探讨。今后应围绕“测度辨识—格局过程—作用机理”,运用定性、定量与空间分析综合集成的方法,继续深化和完善生产性服务业集聚的地理学研究。
As an important sector in service industry, producer services have become a significant force to promote the economic growth and reflect the main economic function in China's metropolitan regions since the 1990s. In recent decades, the growth and spatial agglomeration of producer services become one of the most important economic phenomena in regions of different scales and the most international metropolises. Based on the review of industrial agglomeration and service industrial location, this paper summarizes the research contents and research methods & techniques on producer services agglomeration. On the whole, around regions and metropolitans, many scholars at home and abroad have studied this topic and made much progress. However, there are still some shortcomings in some aspects. Firstly, this study has paid much attention to the spatial patterns, while little can be found in the published literature about evolution process. Secondly, there have been relatively studies on the impact mechanism of the spatial agglomeration on producer services, thus a law theoretic system has not formed. Thirdly, most of the research methods transform the model that measures manufacturing agglomeration to the producer services. Besides, its applicability and relevance still need to be further explored. The main study trends and orientations in the future can be summarized as follows: Aiming at the research framework "measurement and identification, patterns and process, factors and mechanisms"; and using integrated approach of qualitative-quantitative and spatial analysis to deepen and improve the geographic research of the spatial agglomeration on producer services.