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BK

1st publ.

London : Routledge, 1995

xii,236 s. : il.

ISBN 0-415-11951-0 (brož.)

Obsahuje rejstřík

Geografie průmyslu - učebnice vysokošk.

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CONTENTS // List of Figures x // List of Tables xiii // Preface and Acknowledgements xv // 1 WHAT IS INDUSTRIAL LOCATION? 1 // Industrial location as commitment 2 // The study of industrial location 3 // Distinguishing among Activities and Locations 5 // Characterizing activities 5 // Characterizing places 6 // Studying Industrial Location 9 // What should we study? 9 // How do we describe what we’re studying? 11 // How do we explain what we’re studying? 14 // Summary 16 // Suggested Reading 17 // 2 LOCATING TO MINIMIZE COSTS 18 // Competitive Environments 18 // Perfect competition 18 // Oligopolistic competition 19 // Monopolistic competition 19 // A Simple Cost-minimizing Location Model 20 // Step 1: Minimize transport costs 21 // Step 2: Consider immobile inputs 24 // Step 3: Consider the potential benefits of agglomeration 26 // More about transport costs 26 // Production Factors: Capital, Land, Labor 28 // Financial capital as a locational factor 28 // Land availability as a locational factor 29 // Labor as a locational factor 29 // Scale, Agglomeration, and Urbanization 32 // Internal economies of scale 33 // External economies of agglomeration 36 // External economies and diseconomies of urbanization and localization ?1 // Input Substitution and the Indeterminacy of Location 37 // Summary 38 // Suggested Reading 39 // 3 LOCATING TO MAXIMIZE REVENUES AND PROFITS 40 // Spatial Pricing Policies 40 // Uniform delivered pricing 41 // F.o.b. plant pricing 43 // Spatial Competition 44 // Minimizing Costs and Maximizing Revenues 47 // Combining the concerns of cost minimization and spatial competition 47 // Maximizing profit 50 // Combining approaches 51 // Summary 51 // Suggested Reading 52 // 4 GROWTH AND LOCATION OF SERVICE ACTIVITIES 53 // The Heterogeneity of Services 53 // Reasons for Service Sector Growth 55 // The “post-industrial society” thesis 56 //

Alternative explanations of service sector growth 56 // Service Sector Labor Markets 60 // Location of Service Activities 62 // Summary 64 // Suggested Reading 65 // 5 COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE AND INDUSTRIAL LOCATION 66 // Theories of Comparative Advantage 67 // Ricardo’s model of comparative advantage 67 // The neoclassical model: the Heckscher-Ohlin theory 69 // Comparative advantage and transportation costs 71 // Comparative Advantage, Economic Base Analysis, and Local Economies 72 // Location quotients and regional specialization 1? // Export base analysis 75 // Case study: General Motors’ Saturn complex 85 // Summary 91 // Suggested Reading 91 // 6 TECHNOLOGY AND LOCATIONAL CHANGE 92 // Variations in Technology 92 // Technological change 92 // Technology diffusion 93 // Incremental Technological Change 94 // Learning and experience curves 94 // Technological change over the product life cycle 95 // International product cycle 96 // Industrial filtering 98 // Case study: U.S. semiconductor components companies 99 // Technological Change over the Long Run 100 // General trends in industrial technology 100 // Temporal and spatial clusters of technological change 101 // Technological change away from mass production 102 // Industrial location in an information age 106 // The Geography of Technological Development 108 // Where is technology developed? 108 // Location of corporate and government R&D 110 // The geography of technology diffusion 111 // Innovative regions 111 // Summary 113 // Suggested Reading 113 // 7 INDUSTRIAL LOCATION AND INDUSTRIAL GEOGRAPHY 115 // Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution 115 // Capitalism as a unique form of production 116 // The Industrial Revolution 119 // The geography of industrialization 121 // Demographic changes associated with industrialization 123 // Global industrialization 123 //

Business Cycles and Uneven Development 124 // Business cycles and economic change 125 // Alternative explanations of business cycles 126 // The geography of business cycles 127 // The Restructuring of Production 129 // Industrial dualism 129 // Corporate growth and change 130 // Deindustrialization 132 // Causes of deindustrialization 133 // The geographies of deindustrialization 137 // The Globalization of Production 140 // Historical overview 141 // Multinational corporations 142 // The ascendance of East and Southeast Asia 143 // Summary 146 // Suggested Reading 147 // 8 HOW COMPANIES ACTUALLY MAKE LOCATION DECISIONS 148 // Practical Considerations 149 // Alternatives to substantial investment 149 // Location considerations depend upon the investment motivation 151 // Case study: industrial de-location: selecting plants for closure 153 // Comparing Potential Locations 156 // Comparing an infinite number of locations 156 // Comparing a discrete number of locations 157 // Capital-budgeting approaches 163 // Final Concerns 167 // Organizing the decision-making process 167 // Ending the process 168 // Summary 168 // Suggested Reading 169 // 9 THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENTS 170 // The State, the Macroeconomy, and Private Investment 170 // Theories of the state 171 // Macroeconomic policies 173 // Government roles in technological change 175 // Location of government activity 176 // Regional Policy 180 // Explicit and implicit regional policies 180 // Business climate: code word or empty words? 185 // Making use of incentives 187 // Case study: the billion-dollar attraction: McDonnell-Douglas’s MD-12X 187 // Implications for regional policy 190 // The Post-Keynesian State and Urban Policy 192 // Tools of post-Keynesian policy 193 // Public—private partnerships 194 // Concluding comments on post-Keynesian urban policy 195 // Summary 195 // Suggested Reading 196 //

10 SECTOR-SPECIFIC CASE STUDIES 197 // The Textile and Garment Industries 197 // The Iron and Steel Industry 201 // The Automobile Industry 205 // Electronics 210 // Financial Services 212 // The internationalization of financial services 214 // U.S. banking: geography of growth and decline 216 // The importance of regulation on banking change and location 218 Telecommunications 220 // Summary 222 // Suggested Reading 222 // 11 CONNECTING THE PIECES The Corporate Perspective The System-wide Perspective // Distinguishing places and activities Different approaches to different questions // Index