Packers and
Movers Pune
In
section 4 we present an example an empirical study that addresses relevant firm
relocation for the present era by means of a statistical model estimated on
data for individual firm of the Netherlands. We conclude the chapter with a
discussion of why and how the firm relocation research frontier can be pushed
forward and give suggestions for further research also in relation with policy.
These
events are certainly extremely interesting from a geographical or spatial point
of view. All these events are taken in to account in a demographic approach to
firm dynamics that has gained popularity
in recent years Van Disk and Plenary 2000a. this approach which is studied both
by geographers. Sociologists and economists is called industrial demography of
the firm or enterprise or economic demography Van Wisent 2000a. In this chapter
we will limit ourselves to the discussion of the basic form of firm relocation:
a firm moves from location A to B.
To
get insight in the relevance and scope of firm relocation we start eighth an
overview of theories which shed light on firm relocation and the underlying
causal factors. In section 2 we will treat the neo classical the behavioral and
the institutional approaches respectively. Next a historical review of firm
relocation research is presented in section3. It starts with the classical
studies of the first post war period followed by a description of what can be
called the golden era of firm relocation studies according to the large number
of studies: the nineteen sixties and seventies. This section ends with an
overview of firm relocation studies of the last decades of the previous
century.
Theoretical
aspects
Economic
geography or more specific location theory has witnessed a proliferation of
theories and approaches in the last two decades none of which seems to dominate
the field at present Scott 2000. A clear
paradigm is missing instead almost anything goes Bryson et al., 1999. Therefore
we will give an overview of several approaches which seem to be useful to get
Moser insight in firm relocation and the underlying decision processes. Broadly
speaking following hayter 1997 and Machlup 1967 a division in three types of
location theories may be made a neo- classical a behavioural and an institutional
approach. For a general overview of location theories we refer to. Hayter 1997
and references therein. Here we are not dealing with location theories per se
but with relocation theories.
