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Grønhaug, K. Location behaviour regarded as a decision process. Norsk geogr. Tidsskr. 28, 243–252.

The individual firm considers location decisions important but difficult to handle owing to the complexity of the problem and the firm's unfamiliarity with such decisions. This article intends to find out how the individual firm tries to cope with these situations. Several studies are interpreted in a frame of reference where the location behaviour of the firm is looked upon as determined by both internal and external factors. It was found that the new location of the firm in most cases is very close to the old one; internal growth is the principal incentive to start looking for (and to find) a new location; the presumed importance of various location factors differ from one firm to the other – and even within the same industry; when changing to a new location most firms perform only modest search and analytic activities; most firms do not consider their present location as absolutely necessary, but nevertheless only a small number of the firms studied planned to move.