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Industrial Organisation and Location
Contributor(s): McDermott, P. J. (Author), Taylor, Michael (Author), McDermott, Philip (Author)

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 ISBN: 0521105609     ISBN-13: 9780521105606
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $39.89  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2009
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Annotation: This book attempts to advance locational explanation in industrial geography by more fully exploring relationships between organizations and the environments within which they operate.

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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Industries - General
- Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development
Dewey: 338.604
Series: Cambridge Geographical Studies
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 7.44" W x 9.69" L (0.94 lbs) 236 pages
 
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This book attempts to advance locational explanation in industrial geography by more fully exploring relationships between organizations and the environments within which they operate. The volume is in two parts, the first developing a theoretical framework and the second testing this framework with data for firms in the electronics industry in the UK. To produce the theoretical framework, ideas derived from geographers' studies of linkages and information flows are reviewed and amalgamated with ideas embodied in organization theorists' contingency models of organisational structure. These two sets of studies are complementary. The geographical studies are empirically strong but conceptually weak, and are cast in an explicitly spatial framework. The structural contingency models, however, are empirically weak, conceptually strong and almost entirely aspatial. The amalgamation of these two sets of ideas yields an a priori model of organization environment interactions, which is tested in the second half of the volume.
 
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