Standing at the feet of giants. Location choices of entrepeneurs in informal workplaces
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2018-01-24
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en
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For long, policymakers focused on the formal business estates. These were perceived the settlement places of the engines of the local economy. However, some sand has come into these motors as the employment continues to decrease. At the same time, the employment outside these estates is increasing considerably. The term ‘informal location’ is therefore more and more used, without a clear understanding of all of its facets. The aim of this explorative thesis was therefore to gain insight into especially the location factors of the entrepreneurs. This is researched in light of the municipal goal of mixed-use development in Zaanstad, traditionally a municipality in which living and working are spatially combined. As it was soon found that ‘the’ informal location does not exist, a distinction has been made between the home, shared business premise, centres/’city streets’/ other and the future informal locations (the business estates within the city). It turns out that the aim of mixed-use and the location factors for each level match to different extents. A finer grain of mixed-use is certainly an opportunity though, although some institutional factors prevent this at the moment.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen