SOURCE OBJECTIVES
1. Audretsch, David B.; Falck,
Oliver; Feldman, Maryann P.;
Heblich, Stephan. Regional
Studies. Apr2012, Vol. 46 Issue
3, p379-389. 11p. 1 Diagram, 5
Charts, 1 Map. DOI:
10.1080/00343404.2010.490209.,
Database: Business Source
Complete
2. Rajkumar, Paulrajan. Asian
Academy of Management
Journal. 2013, Vol. 18 Issue 1,
p35-54. 20p. ,
Database: Business Source
Complete
METHOD
This paper posits that
regions provide locational
factors which determine
the industry structure and
with it entrepreneurial
opportunities whose
exploitation influences
regional dynamics.
To test the interrelation
between regional
characteristics and
entrepreneurial activities.
To understand the factors
influencing the location
selection decision making
of information technology
companies in India.
Seven constructs, which
include manpower,
technology, social,
hedonistic, industrial site,
economic governmental
factors, and as well as
their underlying items,
play vital roles in location
selection decisions.
SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS
Seventy-four West German
regions were classified by
their endowments with
locational factors.
The local employees’ group-
specific propensity to start a
business within the
framework of count data
models was then analyzed.
A pilot study was conducted
to understand the market
and frame an effective
questionnaire.
The survey used a structured
questionnaire for personnel
from information technology
organizations, government,
and support service
organizations.
The data collected from the
respondents was analyzed to
reduce it to meaningful
factors. The factorized data
and the constructs were
The empirical results suggest the
distinct existence of entrepreneurial
regional regimes, where local
employees have a high propensity to
start a business, and routinized
regional regimes, with a lower
propensity to generate local
entrepreneurial activity.
It can be ascertained that the
technological factors construct has the
biggest impact, followed by the
manpower construct and the social
construct. These three constructs have
more impact on the selection of
location for information technology
organizations in a technology park.
The economical and industrial site
constructs have a moderate impact on
influencing the location selection
decisions of information technology
firms.
The construct "Governmental" is low,
and the construct "Hedonistic" has the

3. LACHOU, CHARISIA;
IAKOVIDOU, OLGA. Journal of
Developmental
Entrepreneurship. Dec2015, Vol.
20 Issue 4, p1. 23p. DOI:
10.1142/S1084946715500235. ,
Database: Business Source
Complete
4. Comunian, R., Chapain, C., &
Clifton, N. (2010). Location,
location, location: exploring the
complex relationship between
creative industries and
place. Creative Industries
Journal, 3(1), 5-10.
The scope of this article is
to present past and
present research studies
related to the business
location factors (BLF)
identifying the most
important sub-topics,
contributors and their
geographical distribution,
major outlets, main
empirical methodologies
employed, as well as the
most frequently studied
countries.
Developing a better
understanding of the
dynamics that affect the
relationship between
creative industries and
their geographical
context.
further analyzed with the
help of a structural equation
model.
a quantitative survey of the
literature review of this field.
presentation and
documentation of the
existing literature review
Framework:
The complex
interconnections between
creative industries and place
lowest coefficient of 0.217. Both these
constructs have a lesser impact on
location selection decisions.
Moreover, the exogenous construct
"Preference for Location" has a
substantial impact on the construct
"Selection" with a coefficient of 0.670
and provides evidence of the
relationship as well.
Policy makers could take advantage of
the BLF to attract investments in
regions seeking development while
active entrepreneurs could realize the
important role played by the factors
affecting the location of their business
in a specific place and researchers
could trace and fill in potential research
voids on this subject.
Different creative businesses perceive
and experience different levels of
‘embeddedness’ in relation to local
infrastructure, networks, governance
and markets. Infrastructure is often
place-based.

5. Brush, Candida G.; Edelman,
Linda F.; Manolova, Tatiana
S. Journal of Small Business
Management. Apr2008, Vol. 46
Issue 2, p159-182. 24p. 1
Diagram, 5 Charts. DOI:
10.1111/j.1540-
627X.2008.00238.x. ,
Database: Business Source
Complete
A wide literature has
attempted to explain the
general characteristics of
‘creative places’;
nevertheless, there is still
little knowledge of the
micro-interactions that
creative practitioners and
businesses establish
within specific local
contexts.
This paper examines the
impact of initial firm
location choices and
aspirations of the
entrepreneur on the
resource assembly
process and the likelihood
of first sale.
The data utilized for the
current investigation were
drawn from the 1998 phone
interviews of nascent
entrepreneurs, a component
of the Panel Study for
Entrepreneurial Dynamics
(PSED).
The PSED is a cross-sectional,
longitudinal study of U.S
nascent entrepreneurs.
Nascent entrepreneurs are
those individuals who have
attempted to start a business
within the past 12 months.
To qualify for inclusion in the
study, individuals had to still
be in the start-up or
Four interrelated dimensions seem to
determine the potential of certain
locations to support the growth of the
creative economy: infrastructure,
governance, soft infrastructure and
markets.
Results show that home-based
businesses assemble different types of
resources from their away-based
counterparts.
Higher aspirations were associated
with greater accumulation of
organizational resources.
The combined influence of location and
aspirations showed that home-based
firms with high aspirations were less
likely to achieve first sale.
A post hoc analysis examined these
affects within a subgroup of service
firms and confirmed the previous
results.
This study suggests that in the initial
stages of the new venture, there are

6. Hiemstra, A. M., Van der Kooy, K.
G., & Frese, M. (2006).
Entrepreneurship in the street
food sector of Vietnam—
Assessment of psychological
success and failure
factors. Journal of Small
Business Management, 44(3),
474-481.
7. Lall, S. V., & Mengistae, T.
(2005). Business environment,
clustering, and industry location:
evidence from Indian cities.
gestation stage of the
business when contacted.
The study tested the A survey was done in Hue
hypothesis that process and Hanoi (Vietnam) among
characteristics of action 102 street food vendors.
strategies were related to With 62 vendors of this
entrepreneurial success in sample, the researchers held
micro-businesses in the in-depth interviews, which
urban informal sector of were used to test the
Vietnam. The process hypotheses.
characteristics were
divided into four The interviews were
strategies: critical point structured and consisted of
planning, complete two parts: a baseline
planning, opportunistic, interview on demographic
and reactive. characteristics and an in-
depth interview on the
process characteristics of
actions strategies.
The research answered Researchers examined these
the following questions: questions by analyzing
location decisions of
How do differences in the individual firms.
local business
environment influence The research used data from
location of industry a recently completed survey
within countries? of manufacturing firms in
India.
processes and routines that home-
based businesses engage in that lead
them to achieve first sales in a timelier
manner than those businesses that are
located away from home.
The results showed that seventy
percent of the business owners did not
plan much. Opportunistic and planning
strategies were most highly related to
success, and a reactive strategy was
related to failure. The latter replicates
other studies in other developing
countries.
The results find that both the local
business environment and
agglomeration economies significantly
influence business location choices
across cities.
In particular, excessive regulation of
labor and of other industrial activities

8. Aharonson, B. S., Baum, J. A., &
Feldman, M. P. (2004). Borrowing
from neighbors: the location
choice of entrepreneurs.
In DRUID Summer Conference,
June.
9. Bosma, N., Van Stel, A., &
Suddle, K. (2008). The
geography of new firm formation:
Evidence from independent start-
ups and new subsidiaries in the
How do the benefits of a reduces the probability of a business
good business locating in a city.
environment compare to
those from good market Findings imply that in order to attract
access and agglomeration industrial activity, smaller or remoter
economies from industry cities need to offer even more
clustering? attractive policy concessions or reforms
in order to offset the effects of their
relatively adverse (economic)
geography.
The logic of industrial The research used data on The findings suggest that
clustering suggests that the location of firms in the entrepreneurs locate strategically in
new entrants will be Canadian Biotechnology industrial clusters in order to benefit
attracted by the potential Industry between 1992 and from knowledge spillovers from firms
of knowledge spillovers 2000. in the same technological
from existing firms who specialization.
work in the same
technological Findings emphasize the importance of
specialization. a strategic location decision. If a firm
wish to capitalize on the benefits
This paper explores the available from clustering, it must
influence of choose to locate strategically where it
agglomerative forces on may attract other perspective firms in
the entrepreneur’s its specialization. Second, in order to
founding location. attract new neighbors in the form of
entrepreneurial start-ups, the
incumbent firms need to invest more in
R&D.
This paper investigates to Using a regional data base for The study finds urbanization economies
what extent determinants the Netherlands over the to be particularly important for the
of the rate of period 1988-2002, the paper creation of new subsidiaries while
independent startups and investigated the impact of localization economies are more
 Netherlands. International
Entrepreneurship and
Management Journal, 4(2), 129-
146.
10. Porter, M. E. (2000). Location,
competition, and economic
development: Local clusters in a
global economy. Economic
development quarterly, 14(1), 15-
34.
11. Delgado, M., Porter, M. E.,
& Stern, S. (2010). Clusters
and
entrepreneurship. Journal of
economic geography, 10(4),
495-518.
the rate of new
subsidiaries are different.
Discussion of porter
about clusters, location
and competition,
competitive advantage,
role of government, etc.
This paper examines the
role of regional clusters in
regional
entrepreneurship. The
focus is on the distinct
influences of convergence
and agglomeration on
growth in the number of
start-up firms as well as in
employment in these new
firms in a given region-
industry.
two types of agglomeration
effects, localization and
urbanization, while
controlling for a range of
economic variables.
Related literature
The empirical analysis uses a
novel panel dataset from the
Longitudinal Business
Database of the Census
Bureau and the U.S. Cluster
Mapping Project (Porter,
2003).
important for the creation of
independent new ventures. Finally, the
effect of agglomeration variables is
found to be stronger for manufacturing
industries compared to services
industries.
The prevalence of clusters reveals
important insights about the
microeconomics of competition and
the role of location in competitive
advantage.
There is significant evidence of the
positive impact of clusters on
entrepreneurship.
After controlling for convergence in
start-up activity at the region-industry
level, industries located in regions with
strong clusters (i.e. a large presence of
other related industries) experience
higher growth in new business
formation and start-up employment.
Strong clusters are also associated with
the formation of new establishments of
existing firms, thus influencing the
location decision of multi
establishment firms. Finally, strong
clusters contribute to start-up firm
survival.
12. Dahl, M. S., & Sorenson, O.
(2009). The embedded
entrepreneur. European
Management Review, 6(3),
172-181.
13. Tambunan, T. (2005). Promoting
small and medium enterprises
with a clustering approach: A
policy experience from
Indonesia. Journal of Small
Business Management, 43(2),
138-154.
This paper examines the
determinants of
entrepreneurs’ choices of
where to locate their new
ventures.
It is therefore not a
surprise that SMEs
receive ample attention
in Indonesia. In recent
years, particular attention
has been paid to
development of SME
clusters.
Random utility model
Sample of entrepreneurs
consists of the primary
founders of all new firms
with at least one employee in
the first year, where authors
have information on the
founder in both the firm’s
year of establishment and
the preceding year.
Analysis of clusters
The findings suggest that
entrepreneurs place much more
emphasis on being close to family and
friends than on regional characteristics
that might influence the performance
of their ventures when deciding where
to locate those businesses.
On the one hand, entrepreneurs may
simply value proximity to family and
friends. On the other hand, these
relationships may help them to
assemble the assets and to recruit the
personnel that they need to succeed in
their ventures.
The study has found that, according to
their level of development, there are
three types of clusters in Indonesia.
Second, the study has demonstrated
that SME development policies with a
clustering approach are important from
a public policy perspective. This
strategy makes it more effective and
more efficient for government to
provide technical assistance and
general facilities to a group of firms in
one place than to individual firms in
dispersed locations. A
Third, the study has found that in many
cases, cluster development policies in
Indonesia have not been successful. In
essence, most failures can be
attributed to (1) neglecting cluster
linkage to markets; (2) neglecting or
even eroding SMEs’ self-organization
potential; and (3) limited support from
local government and private
organizations.