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Urban Studies, Vol. 28, No. 3, 383-392 (1991)
DOI: 10.1080/00420989120080411

Rationality in Industrial Location Decisions

Peter M. Townroe

School of Urban and Regional Studies, Sheffield City Polytechnic, Sheffield S1 1WB, UK

Models of the outcomes of decision-making with respect to location by industrial companies decentralising from a metropolitan core have made the standard economic assumptions of optimising behaviour under constraints, following a path of instrumental rationality. This paper argues the case for widening the perspectives used in the analysis of industrial location decisions to consider both procedural rationality and expressive rationality alongside the standard instrumental view.


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