(i) What is ‘industrial inertia’?
The tendency of an industry to remain in a particular place even when the initial/original locational factors/advantages are no longer important
(ii) State two causes of industrial inertia
(a) An industry may remain in a place due to the availability of experienced workers. Areas with traditional industries are usually rich with skilled and experienced workers. In such a case, the investors will be reluctant to move to a new area even if the original location factors are no longer important.
(b) Sometimes it is very expensive to move to a new site. Moving to a new site would mean building a new factory as well as buying new machinery and other equipment.
(c) An established industrial region usually has a well developed transport network. For an industry to move to a new site, it will be faced with transportation and other basic infrastructure problems.
johnson mwenjera answered the question on January 12, 2018 at 07:17
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