Attractiveness and Location: Attesting Attractiveness of Locations by Business Service Final Decision Implementation vis-à-vis to Location Factors

The objective of this paper is to attain a consensus about location attractiveness attested and possibly measured by business service performance after implementation final decision at a host market. After combining theories of location, agglomeration phenomenon, “tertiarization” and strategies of location follows suggestive econometric treatments of variables keen to attest attractiveness. The focus is dragged on the coefficient interpretation on the cause/effect relationship under cross section analysis conditions. Positive and significant results using French data base mostly related to service sector for 2013 as fiscal. An audacious attempt to quantify what remains as qualitative characteristic indeed. Further work is needed to validate reliability to the knowledge of Attractiveness at once to finally be more than just subjectively measured.