. L'histoire de Ford est considérée comme une recherche permanente de l'universalité s'inscrivant sur des principes (rigidité-flexibilité) qui imposent des mutations de sa structuration spatiale.
Fordism at Ford: spatial decentralization and labor segmentation at the FordMotorCompany, 1920-1950
La théorie néoclassique de la localisation est examinée dans le contexte de la théorie des coûts de transaction, et l'A. suggère que cette approche ne rend pas bien compte des décisions de localisation de la firme Ford. Il préfère la théorie néo
Since mid-1980s, Japanese motorcompanies have newly set up vehicle assembly plants in EC countries, to meet both the voluntary restraint of car exports from Japan (since 1986) and the establishment of EC single market in 1993. The UK Government
The Company's Island : Saint Helena, Company colonies and the colonial endeavour
Company, which had to bring in settlers from Britain, Africa and elsewhere. Tensions between soldiers and settlers, whites and blacks, Company interests and those of the Crown became unbearable. This study exemplifies the difficulties the Company
and less advanced yet. Much less companies are privatized (companies with foreign participation, worker’s companies and/or companies with Polish non-public sector participation). On the other hand, much more are public companies (single-personality local
authority companies, local government companies, municipal union ownership, municipal companies and/or budgetary workshops). Moreover, in 20 centres urban transport is proved by general municipal services enterprises. - (BJ)
Liberalization policies and foreign companies in Accra, Ghana
To redress the deficiency of globalization studies in the periphery of the world economy, The A. examines globalization empirically from the ground upwards through an analysis of foreign companies. The evidence points to growing inclusion in, rather
than exclusion from, the world economy, to increasing service-sector rather than extractive-sector investment, and to foreign companies producing for local and regional markets as well as for international markets.
Competition between television companies for advertising revenue in the United Kingdom : the Independent Television regions prior to deregulation
The A. examine the ways in which commercial television companies try to attract advertising to their regions. There are regionally uneven allocations of advertising money, and hence an uneven regional pattern of TV company revenues. TV companies use
Municipal archives of Amsterdam. Inventory of the archives of the Holland land company, including the related Amsterdam companies and negotiations dealing with the purchase of land and state funds in the United States of America, 1789-1869.
(1789-1869) ; Achat foncier ; Benelux ; Colonisation agricole ; Commune ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie de l'Amérique ; Géographie historique ; Holland Land Company ; Pays-Bas
Internationalisation as company and industry colonisation: the frozen meat industry in New Zealand in the 1900s
INternationalisation and globalisation as concepts have attracted considerable attention in contemporary human geography. Drawing on the work of Braudel and others, nineteenth century prefiguring of company internationalisation is suggested
Competencies in subsidiaries of multinational companies. The case of the automotive supply industry in Poland
This paper discusses the development of corporate competencies at plant level, mainly focusing on the first aspect, the tasks assigned by management to the subsidiary. The article deals with terms of multinational companies, subsidiaries, knowledge
The spatial impact of organizational changes in industrial companies in Geographical essays in Hungary.
Two processes, or rather measures, have played an important role: the greater freedom given to companies in their investment activities and the amalgamation of industrial enterprises both connected with the new economic system set up in 1968
Buitenlandse ondernemingen in regionaal perspectief. Vestigingsstrategieën en regionale effecten van buitenlandse bedrijven in Nederland. Foreign companies in a regional perspective. Locational strategies and regional impact of foreign firms
The central theme of this study is the role played by environment and location in the choice of site for permanent establishments of foreign companies. The analysis focusses on straightforward branches and subsidiaries of the foreign companies
A stakeholder model in economic geography : perception and management of environmental stakeholders in German manufacturing companies
By applying and modifying the stakeholder salience model from management studies, the AA. analyze which factors influence company managers in their environmental decision-making and which priorities they give to competing stakeholder claims
. The stakeholder atrributes (legitimacy, power, and willingness to cooperate) are more important for stakeholder salience than company and product related characteristics.
The author attempts to analyse the locational characteristics and functions of office buildings by private developers at national and urban levels. The author has investigated office buildings by Mitsubishi Estate Company, Mitsui Real Estate
Development Company, Nihon Life Insurance Company and Mori Building Company, focusing his attention on the differences in development patterns and decisions. (SGA).
The foreign company's location investment decision and its role in British regional development in Foreign investment in industrialized countries.
Foreign owned manufacturing companies in a country may have one of two origins, by acquisition or direct establishment. Attention is focused on the latter with a view to determining whether the foreign owned company has a distinctive spatial pattern