Multinational enterprises and regional development: Irish evidence

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O'Farrell P. N. (1980) Multinational enterprises and regional development: Irish evidence, Reg. Studies 14, 141–150. This paper analyses the locational behaviour of foreign manufacturing establishments in Ireland at a number of spatial scales. The widely accepted assertion that regional incentives do not attract many foreign-owned plants to sites outside the core region of the host nation is shown to be invalid in the Irish case. Foreign projects have been marginally more likely than Irish ones to locate in peripheral Designated Areas. There are few differences in locational behaviour between different national sub-groups of plants. Location has been more footloose with respect to regional location than to town size.