DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2018, 10(3):90-107 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2018.025

Industrial Agglomeration and Location Choice in the Service and Retail Sector: The Case of India

Devesh Singha, Zoltán Gálb
a Institute of Regional and Agrarian Economics, Kaposvár University, Kaposvár, Hungary
b HAS CERS Institute for Regional Studies, H7621 Pécs, Papnövelde str. 22

Keywords: Location choice, Agglomeration, Methodological challenges

Behind the selection of location choices for services and retail sector, many factors work in conjunction. This research tried to determine which factors had an influence on location choice and agglomeration and which factors worked together to decide the location choice. This study empirically tests location determinant hypothesis. Our findings suggested that infrastructure, corruption and law, labour law and workforce had a significant effect on location choice. Other factors such as trade regulation, competition, sales and supply, access to land and permit, access to finance, institutional administration and political constraint had the insignificant effect on location choice. Our research used the 2014 World Enterprise Survey data from World Bank, and it included the 2116 registered companies sample responses.

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Singh, D., & Gál, Z. (2018). Industrial Agglomeration and Location Choice in the Service and Retail Sector: The Case of India. DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism, 10(3), 90-107. doi: 10.32725/det.2018.025
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