Stated and revealed locational preferences of firms: a national scale perspective

This special issue aims to present and discuss works that are at the forefront of the international academic debate on the frms’ locational preferences trying to be open to a wide variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. The objective is therefore to make the point of the scientifc debate on this issue, hosting contributions by scholars analysing diferent countries and dealing with different conceptualisations (for example, stated or revealed locational preferences), diferent methodologies (mostly quantitative, but also qualitative), diferent theoretical and analytical perspectives from which the frms’ locational preferences have been recently explored, studied and explained, balancing more traditional studies on this subject with new emerging approaches.