The Dynamics Of Industrial Location

Author : Roger Hayter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05-30
Category : Science
ISBN : CORNELL:31924079930834

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The Dynamics of Industrial Location by Roger Hayter Pdf

A modern textbook on industrial geography that systematically explores the location dynamics of factories, firms and production systems within the context of the problem of industrial transformation. The most comprehensive treatment of contemporary industrial geography, including new approaches to factory location and the geography of the firm, and discussions of industrial districts, flexible specialisation, restructuring, truncated economies and de-industrialization Adopts a clear but elegant structure in which the factory, the firm and the production system, provide related and progressively complex building blocks Well written and clearly illustrated with case studies and examples from all over the world which explicitly integrate the geographical and organizational dimensions of industrial change The Dynamics of Industrial Location is a cornerstone text for the teaching of economic geography which effectively incorporates the results of the transformation of manufacturing in the past decade, the impact of de-industrialization, post-Fordism and the globalization of production in a way that previous textbooks were unable to do. Policy issues are addressed throughout the book. Roger Hayter has written a modern text that is the first student level treatment of ?new industrial spaces?. He brings together the conceptual idea and the empirical example. The book brims with interesting real world illustrations, along with insightful applications of theory. This is quite simply the first choice adoptable textbook for second (and upper) level industrial geography courses. It will also be of considerable relevance for regional, community and environmental planners and for students in urban studies, business and regional economics.

Author : Alfred Dupont CHANDLER,Takashi Hikino,Alfred D Chandler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674029385

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Scale and Scope by Alfred Dupont CHANDLER,Takashi Hikino,Alfred D Chandler Pdf

Scale and Scope is Alfred Chandler's first major work since his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Visible Hand. Representing ten years of research into the history of the managerial business system, this book concentrates on patterns of growth and competitiveness in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain, tracing the evolution of large firms into multinational giants and orienting the late twentieth century's most important developments. This edition includes the entire hardcover edition with the exception of the Appendix Tables.

Author : Richard N. Langlois
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135982683

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Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism by Richard N. Langlois Pdf

Co-winner of the 2006 Schumpeter Prize of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter SocietyExplaining the shift of the organizational landscape towards more specialized entities connected by markets and networks, this book places the work of Schumpeter and Chandler in a larger theoretical framework.

Author : David Marshall Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4350824

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Industrial Location by David Marshall Smith Pdf

Author : Mario A. Maggioni
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642574801

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Clustering Dynamics and the Location of High-Tech-Firms by Mario A. Maggioni Pdf

Across a line drawn from New York to Los Angeles, the level of cconomi

Author : Allan Pred
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UCSD:31822005860820

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The Spatial Dynamics of U.S. Urban-industrial Growth, 1800-1914 by Allan Pred Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fuel
ISBN : UOM:39015013034692

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Energy: a Continuing Bibliography with Indexes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UIUC:30112075601564

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Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports by Anonim Pdf

Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.

Author : Somik V. Lall,Taye Mengistae
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bank
ISBN : 9780508031034

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Business Environment, Clustering, and Industry Location by Somik V. Lall,Taye Mengistae Pdf

Abstract: How do differences in the local business environment influence location of industry within countries? How do the benefits of a good business environment compare with those from good market access and agglomeration economies from industry clustering? The authors examine these questions by analyzing location decisions of individual firms. Using data from a recently completed survey of manufacturing firms in India, they find that both the local business environment and agglomeration economies significantly influence business location choices across cities. In particular, excessive regulation of labor and of other industrial activities reduces the probability of a business locating in a city. The authors ' findings imply that in order to attract industrial activity, smaller or remoter cities need to offer even more attractive policy concessions or reforms to offset the effects of their relatively adverse (economic) geography. Their methodology pays special attention to the identification of agglomeration economies in the presence of unobserved sources of natural advantage.

Author : Alfred Weber,Carl Joachim Friedrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Factories
ISBN : UOM:39015003643197

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Alfred Weber's Theory of the Location of Industries by Alfred Weber,Carl Joachim Friedrich Pdf

Weber’s theory, called the location triangle, sought the optimum location for the production of a good based on the fixed locations of the market and two raw material sources, which geographically form a triangle. He sought to determine the least-cost production location within the triangle by figuring the total costs of transporting raw material from both sites to the production site and product from the production site to the market.

Author : Takahiro Miyao
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780323160261

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Dynamic Analysis of the Urban Economy by Takahiro Miyao Pdf

Dynamic Analysis of the Urban Economy provides a dynamic analysis of business and residential economic activities in urban areas. This book is organized into four parts encompassing 13 chapters that cover some insights into the dynamic processes of complex urban relationships through construction and analysis of simple dynamic models of the urban economy, as well as the development of the so-called ""dynamic urban economics"" within the framework of general dynamic economics. The Introduction is a preview of the basic ideas about dynamics. This topic is followed by discussion on the theoretical analyses of dynamic urban systems. Part 1 emphasizes the dynamic stability property of spatial equilibrium and its relation to comparative statics. Part 2 considers the effects of various kinds of externalities o n the dynamic property of the urban economy, while Part 3 examines the long-run growth processes of the urban economy and their optimality property. Part 4 looks into the optimal size and configurations of an urban area in connection with agglomeration economies and traffic congestion. This book will be of great value to economic theorists.

Author : Anne Lorentzen,Karin Topsø Larsen,Lise Schrøder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134642342

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Spatial Dynamics in the Experience Economy by Anne Lorentzen,Karin Topsø Larsen,Lise Schrøder Pdf

This book explores the dynamics of place, location and territories from the perspective of an experience-based economy. It offers a valuable contribution to this new approach and the planning and management challenges it faces. This book emphasises three key avenues to understanding the experience economy. First, the book reconsiders innovation processes and the relationship between the consumption and production of experience value. Second, it considers emerging forms of governance related to experience-based development in businesses and cities. Third, it examines the role of place as a value, resource and outcome of experiential innovation and planning. This book will be of interested to researchers concerned with urban and regional development.

Author : Alfred Weber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Factories
ISBN : UCAL:B4497575

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Theory of the Location of Industries by Alfred Weber Pdf

Author : Dr. Mihyar M. Awad
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781499080179

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Fractal Modernisation Model of Industrial Areas’ Environment in Developing Countries by Dr. Mihyar M. Awad Pdf

The Book is emerging a deeper sense of understanding the morphology of industrial districts in terms of their form, process, scale, statistics and dynamics to enable us to map out our approach for developing irregular dynamical industrial districts. Environmental condition of industrial district in developing countries is in perpetual change, which leads to the failure of the classical modernisation method in achieving their goals. Therefore, the need for dynamical and flexible system is very urgent in such conditions. The fractal modernisation method of industrial Areas, which created by this research is characterised by flexible urban modernisation system, hierarchical metamorphosis, information network and dynamical promotional system. As well as, featured by perpetual repetition of planning process on time by self-organisational structures. Those are features give this method its durability and capability to meet the actual and futuristic needs of randomly dynamical industrial districts of developing countries.

Author : Barbara Dluhosch
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1782541470

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Industrial Location and Economic Integration by Barbara Dluhosch Pdf

"Barbara Dluhosch identifies and analyses the main pillars of the new economic geography. She then presents an essentially new approach focusing on the decline of communication costs, and introduces cost competition and technological choice, which have largely been neglected. The policy implications of this are critically evaluated by drawing on experiences of European economic integration."--BOOK JACKET.