ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on case analyses and the case analyses of spatial behaviour have concentrated on enterprises in a narrow range of industries processing farm or forest products or the closely related food and drink industries. Despite the obvious gaps in one’s knowledge of large industrial enterprise behaviour, which in themselves suggest avenues for future research, some positive statements about the spatial behaviour of large industrial enterprises are possible. An enterprise's spatial evolution reflects both the spatial growth of its plant space and locational adjustment within it. The case analyses demonstrate the dichotomy between industrial system and market system firms, a distinction central to the isolation of large industrial enterprises as an important sub-group of firms. Large industrial enterprises distribute their employment in the same manner as smaller firms, with the exception of their control unit jobs, which tend to be spatially concentrated.
