书目名称 | Dynamic Locational Phases of Economic Activity in the Globalized World |
编辑 | Toshiharu Ishikawa |
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概述 | Elucidates the mechanisms in which locations of the retail and manufacturing activities vary due to economic globalization.Explains the location determination process by which firms determine a factor |
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描述 | .This book clarifies the mechanisms of economicglobalization in changing industries’ locations and shows how industries’ locations have changedthrough those mechanisms. First, the book deals with the retailing industry.Introducing the concept of a .contactprice. into the market area analysis, it is shown in Part I that retailers’market areas and prices are changed in different ways by a reduction oftransportation costs. The mechanism of these changes is explained by checkingthe contact prices at apexes of the retailers’ market areas. Then the book movesto the manufacturing industry and deals with a firm’s production process. Part IIof the book shows the manner in which the production volume of factories withinan agglomeration is decreased as the number of factories within theagglomeration increases. Subsequently, considering the fact that many productionfactories depart from agglomerations to other sites to reduce production costs,a method of searching for a factory’s new site is proposed in which a firm can seekout an optimal location of a factory in a short period of time. By referring toa chaotic phenomenon, a firm sets a .locationprospective area. in a large geographical area a |
出版日期 | Book 2016 |
关键词 | Location Pattern; Contact Price; Market Areas; Chaotic Phenomenon; City System |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0524-4 |
isbn_softcover | 978-981-10-9182-7 |
isbn_ebook | 978-981-10-0524-4 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016 |