This study uses information from a survey of 536 wholesale trade firms to analyze the importance of the traditional industrial location factors in their choice of a metropolitan area location. The conclusion of this analysis is that the location decisions of many wholesale trade firms are...

Subnational economic development in the United States is characterized by a multiplicity of policy instruments. Economic development professionals typically work with only a few of the many possible kinds of instruments. To engage more effectively in economic policymaking, practitioners should...

This article presents evidence that the university has evolved in recent years into an active player in the local economic development game and an attempt is made to provide an understanding of this evolution in university policy on the basis of political and economic events during the 1980s....