Comparative Performance of Small Manufacturing Firms Located in South Wales and Two English Regions

Abstract

DR DAVID HITCHENS IS WITH THE Department of Economics, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Dr Patrick O'Farrell is a professor in the Departmetn of Town and Country Planning, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. This paper is the seventh in a serios comparing the perfomance, characteristics, and problesm of small firms affected by government regional policy in Britain and Ireland. The object is to isolate and assess the imporatance of locational desadvantages arising form manufacturing in those regional against the efectivenss of finacial incentives available, with the aim of identifying constraints on the growth of firms.

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