The Locational Criteria of Footloose Firms: A Formal Model

Ralph C. Allen and Jack H. Stone
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Ralph C. Allen: Valdosta State College
Jack H. Stone: Spelman College

The Review of Regional Studies, 1989, vol. 19, issue 2, 13-17

Abstract: A footloose industry was defined originally by William Alonso and Edgar Hoover as an industry for which transport costs are relatively unimportant.The purpose of this paper is to develop a formal model of a footloose firm, and to use this model to analyze the conditions that establish transport footlooseness and the location orientation of the firm. Using this model, the paper also will investigate the mechanisms that Alonso and others suggested would create footlooseness.

Date: 1989
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