Recent location patterns of modern firms appear to exhibit high mobility patterns with a tendency towards footlooseness. The spatial-economic dynamics - sometimes across the border - of firms is encapsulated in the term ‘nomadic firms’. This paper adresses the issue of nomadic behaviour of...

Two important ways to study the impact of infrastructure improvement on spatial economic development are various model approaches and entrepreneurial surveys. In this paper we concentrate on the second type: entrepreneurial surveys. The empirical results of three surveys are presented. Two...

In this paper the relation between the attractivity of cities as a location for firms and the accessibility via the road network is analyzed. First a brief theoretical introduction on the relation between transport infrastructure and spatial patterns of economic activities is given. In the...

This paper analyses the locational choices and perceptions of international firms in a local economy. It addresses in particular the behaviour of Japanese firms in the Dutch city of Amstelveen near Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Beside a qualitative analysis, a recently developed meta-analytic...

In the current paper, the determinants of firm relocation behaviour in twenty-one countries during the period 1997-1999 are analyzed. We demonstrate that internal growth factors measured by increases, but also decreases, in the workforce induce firm relocation. Firms that serve larger markets...

In this survey paper the literature on entrepreneurship is summarised from the perspective of geographical seedbed conditions and network constellations. We argue that urban areas offer favourable incubator conditions for innovative entrepreneurship, as a result of economies of density and the...

In the development of modern urban systems we are facing a shift from central cities as the major location of coordination functions, high-order services and innovative activities, to interconnected nodes at some distance in a larger metropolitan area. However, which cities in the emerging new...