Analysis of Allee effects on spatial distribution of software enterprises

Zebin Wang, Xiaohua Hu, Hongzhi Hu

Abstract:

Software enterprises have been the important components of modern information
industry, and play radical promoting roles in social and ecomonic development.
Considering the clustering effects of software enterprises, such as benefiting for
exchanges of technology and skills, reducing cost through concentrated workforce, and
supporting by professional industrial environment, industrial park has been the widely
adopted spatial distribution pattern of software enterprises in past practices. However,
existing empirical studies argued that the software industrial park made software
enterprises gathered homogeneously away from their customers in space, and this
situation easily led to the excessive competitions and less efficiency of collaborative
innovation with customers. In order to reveal the specialties of software enterprises in
their spatial distribution, this article studies the above issue from the perspective of
Generalized Ecological Community (GEC). Based on the Allee effect which has been
proposed by ecologists and proven in industry analysis, we establish the mathematical
model for describing the dynamic development of software enterprises in different
spatial distributions, and analyze the factors affecting their survival status. Research
findings indicate the underlying ecological laws of software enterprises’ spatial
distributions, as well as their evolving characteristics influenced by Allee effect, provide
new strategies for the spatial distribution of software enterprises.