Plant size and clustering of manufacturing activity

Geographical Analysis

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-64

  Sweeney, Stuart H ^a   Feser, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING PATTERN; LOCATIONAL CHOICE; MANUFACTURING; MODELLING APPROACH; POINT-PROCESS MODELLING; THEORY;

USA, NORTH CAROLINA;

EID: 0031862749     PISSN: 00167363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4632.1998.tb00388.x     Document Type: Article

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