The equitable allocation of public service facilities is directly related to the healthy development and socially just functioning of cities. Traditional location-allocation models mostly take travel distance and facility construction cost as the decision-making objectives, with relatively...

The Korean economy has seen a prolonged low-growth trend since 2000, and the employment elasticity of growth is slowing down as the industrial structure advances. As a result, the existing companies are not creating sufficient jobs while their restructuring has become frequent. There is a...

Entrepreneurship has currently become an important element of economic, employment and innovation policy. In this context, the promotion of technology-based firms has become the norm, even in rural areas. Thus, the study presented in this paper analyses the variables that influence the choice of...

Our analysis of the survival of firms leads to the important result that the hypotheses about differences between various industries in the life duration of new firms and about the importance of the region of location for the probability of survival are confirmed. Many more enterprises are...