Industrial movement in an industrializing economy

An analysis of the volume and spatial pattern of manufacturing movement in an industrializing economy. South Africa, is presented. More specifically, the extent and geographical distribution of industrial enterprises leaving Johannesburg between 1960–1972 is examined. Industrial movement in an industrializing economy exhibits a number of divergences from the process of migration in an advanced industrialized society and concomitantly also from Keeble’s (1971) dual-population hypothesis. Distance from the economic core, hierarchical status. Of reception area and risk avoidance emerge as significant underpinnings of the spatial pattern of factory movement.