Keywords
creative industries
business performance analysis
Flying Disc model
Structural Equations Model
new economy
knowledge-based society
data envelopment analysis
strategic performance management
spatial distribution
geographical determinants
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Abstract
This paper focuses attention on a quantitative analysis of the creative sector. After a selective and concise literature review, it discusses three important methodological advances, viz. a spatial-econometric approach, a non-parametric business performance analysis based on Data Envelopment Analysis, and finally, a comprehensive and integrated modelling framework in which a so-called ‘Flying Disc’ model is used as a tool for specifying and estimating a Structural Equations Model. The paper offers finally some concluding remarks.
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