Performance Regulation and Industrial Location: A Case Study
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
- Vol. 13 (3) , 321-338
- https://doi.org/10.1068/a130321
Abstract
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.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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