The development of an enterprise and the location of corporate headquarters - with special reference to an enterprise on the location and transfer of its headquarters
Enterprise ; Head office ; Japan ; Location
This paper aims to elucidate the mechanisms of the location and transfer of the headquarters of an enterprise. Snow Brand Milk Products Co., Ltd., Japan's largest dairy products company, is selected as a case study.
Geopolitics ; Location ; Political geography ; Teaching of geography
Diplomatic ties between countries during the Cold War, 1945-1991, are studied for the world, the USA, the Soviet Union, NATO and Warsaw Pact. With the collapse of the geopolitical arrangements of that era, embassy locations are also changing. - (DWG)
Locational preferences of Japanese real estate investors in North America
Economic behaviour ; Finance ; Foreign investment ; Information flow ; Investment ; Japaneses ; Location ; Location choice ; North America ; Real estate property ; United States of America
This research seeks to establish how the locational preferences of Japanese investors were established. It utilizes a survey of 39 investment companies and distinguishes a number of ways in which information concerning overseas real estate
investment opportunities was reviewed by decision makers in Japan. The results show that the investors had fairly fixed locational preferences, were tied to a restricted range of centers, and hesitated to expand into a wider range of locations.
This work stems from the widely accepted hypothesis that housing price is determined by two types of characteristic: structural and locational. Under this hypothesis, a methodology is presented for the spatial estimation of housing prices
and locational rents: the Iterative Residual Kriging (IRK) method. The methodological aspects are complemented by the presentation of an application of this methodology to the case of housing in Granada, Spain.
Industrial location and air pollution controls: a review of evidence from the USA
Atmospheric pollution ; Environmental conservation ; Industrial location ; Location choice ; Pollution control ; Regulation ; Research ; United States of America
Armament industry ; Former USSR ; Industrial location ; Industry ; Shipbuilding ; Technological innovation ; Twentieth Century
This paper traces the evolving spatial pattern of military shipbuilding during the late Tsarist and Soviet periods. Changing patterns are assessed within the context of natural site conditions and relative location of the shipyard, geopolitical
developments in nearby foreign states, technological advances, proximity to markets and sites of the produced inputs, locational inertia, and conditions of wartime mobilization and recovery.
Residential location choice in Sydney's perimetropolitan region
of people who choose to locate in the three settings. Based on a survey of more than 600 households, the paper compares and contrasts sociodemographic, housing tenure, journey-to-work, and choice factors for movers.
The changing metropolitan structure of Atlanta, Georgia: locations of functions and regional structure in a multinucleated urban area
Atlanta ; Centrality ; Commuting ; Georgia (USA) ; Location ; Offices ; Quaternary sector ; Second order urban centre ; Suburbanization ; Tertiary sector ; United States of America ; Urban function ; Urban structure
Head office ; Insurance ; Japan ; Location ; Offices ; Organization ; Spatial system ; Tertiary sector ; Urban system ; Urbanization
Location of corporate headquarters leads to an emergence of the new spatial order in Japan. Corporations seem to have their spatial preferences for headquarters, central and that for sub-branches: it results in the emergence of a specific spatial
The purpose of this paper is to stress the importance of saprolite characterization for consideration on climatic conditions during saprolite formation and age of saprolites. Two weathering profiles located north of the Quaternary glacial limit have
been studied. Then discussion of specific problems with in dealing with such weathering profiles located in previously glaciated areas.