Industrial Location: Principles and Practice

✍ Scribed by Jame Harrington

• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 253
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Location is vital to the efficiency and profitability of industrial activity. Industrial Location presents a comprehensive introduction to and critical review of this field of growing academic and business interest. In business, the right choices have to be made to produce profit. Industrial location is a fixed investment, crucial to the strategy and capital investment of any organization. Location also impacts upon non-investors, directly affecting employment, the environment, and economic activity in the locale. Focusing chiefly on the United States, but drawing on an international range of cases, the authors explain the economic, social and political forces which have shaped comtemporary patterns of industrialization and examines the changing nature of production and systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of Figures......Page 11
List of Tables......Page 14
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 16
WHAT IS INDUSTRIAL LOCATION?......Page 18
LOCATING TO MINIMIZE COSTS......Page 35
LOCATING TO MAXIMIZE REVENUES AND PROFITS......Page 57
GROWTH AND LOCATION OF SERVICE ACTIVITIES......Page 70
COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE AND INDUSTRIAL LOCATION......Page 83
TECHNOLOGY AND LOCATIONAL CHANGE......Page 109
INDUSTRIAL LOCATION AND INDUSTRIAL GEOGRAPHY......Page 132
HOW COMPANIES ACTUALLY MAKE LOCATION DECISIONS......Page 165
THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENTS......Page 187
SECTOR-SPECIFIC CASE STUDIES......Page 214
CONNECTING THE PIECES......Page 241
Index......Page 246