Industrial Location Economics
Competition for industrial investment at the regional and local levels is weakening not only national borders, but also traditional assumptions and methods for analyzing the spatial distribution of industry and trade. Researchers and practitioners in urban and regional planning, geography, and economics—mostly from Europe but also the US and Japan—describe new approaches, based on such factors as the behavior of individual firms, the behavior of multinational and multiplant firms, and the...
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List of figuresList of tablesList of contributorsIntroductionPt. IAnalytical Approaches to Industrial Location1Classical and neoclassical location-production models32The location of economic activity: central place theory and the wider urban system323Geographical grids in 'new economic geography' models834Firm migration110Pt. IICities and Industrial Clusters5Diversity and specialization in cities: why, where and when does it matter?1516Global cities, internationalization and urban systems1877Clusters and networks: institutional settings and strategic perspectives2078Theory, methods and a cross-metropolitan comparison of business clustering222Pt. IIIMultinational Firms and Location Behaviour9The location decision of the multinational enterprise26310The technological relationships between indigenous firms and foreign-owned MNCs in the European regions28611The relationship between the spatial and hierarchical organization of multiplant firms: observations from the global semiconductor industry319Index365
