Industrial Location: Principles, Practice and Policy / Edition 1

by James W. Harrington, Barney Warf

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415119511
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/31/1995
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

J.W.Harrington is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Geography at the Institute of Public Policy at George Mason University; Barney Warf is Associate Professor of Geography, Florida State University.

Table of Contents

1 WHAT IS INDUSTRIAL LOCATION? 2 LOCATING TO MINIMIZE COSTS 3 LOCATING TO MAXIMIZE REVENUES AND PROFITS 4 GROWTH AND LOCATION OF SERVICE ACTIVITIES 5 COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE AND INDUSTRIAL LOCATION 6 TECHNOLOGY AND LOCATIONAL CHANGE7 INDUSTRIAL LOCATION AND INDUSTRIAL GEOGRAPHY 8 HOW COMPANIES ACTUALLY MAKE LOCATION DECISIONS 9 THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENTS 10 SECTOR-SPECIFIC CASE STUDIES 11 CONNECTING THE PIECES