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Performance Regulation and Industrial Location: A Case Study

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  • M Storper
  • R Walker
  • E Widess

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The impact of performance regulations on industrial location in the USA or elsewhere has been little researched. This case study shows conventional assumptions to be questionable on two counts. First, industry appears not to consider local regulations until after selecting a site on more basic economic reasons. It assumes that regulations are not a significant barrier, owing to local eagerness to attract new growth. Second, the letter of the law is not the effect of the law, given the role of politics. In the case study described, opposition led to strict enforcement and the company's withdrawal, but a business backlash restored a more normal degree of governmental accommodation to industrial growth.

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  • M Storper & R Walker & E Widess, 1981. "Performance Regulation and Industrial Location: A Case Study," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 13(3), pages 321-338, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:13:y:1981:i:3:p:321-338
    DOI: 10.1068/a130321
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    1. A Kutay, 1988. "Technological Change and Spatial Transformation in an Information Economy: 1. A Structural Model of Transition in the Urban System," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 20(5), pages 569-593, May.

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