TRANSACTIONS OF PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS SERVICES AND SPATIAL SYSTEMS

This article is concerned with spatial interaction between suppliers and clients of professional business services. It is often suggested that business services transactions require frequent personal interaction and spatial proximity, to the advantage of large urban service complexes. Survey results, presented in this article, show that modes of interaction vary considerably within the professional business services sector, however, leading to complex spatial patterns of services transaction. A typology of professional business services is presented, useful for the explanation of spatial systems of service transactions.