What Attracts High Performance Factories? Minagement Culture and Regional Advantage

Peter Doeringer (), Christine Evans-Klock and David Terkla
Additional contact information
Christine Evans-Klock: International Labor Organization
David Terkla: University of Massachusetts, Boston

No dp-125, Boston University - Department of Economics - The Institute for Economic Development Working Papers Series from Boston University - Department of Economics

Abstract: National data and case studies are used to test the importance of management practices, particularly high performance practices, on the location decisions of new manufacturing plants. We find that plants with high performance management cultures rely on different criteria when making their location decisions, and also weigh standard location criteria differently, than those plants that are managed in more traditional ways. Omitting management culture from studies of business location may, therefore, result in biased estimates of the importance of various traditional location factors. By more accurately specifying location models for manufacturing plants with high performance management cultures, we are able to offer new insights for regional development policy.

Keywords: Management; Practices; and; Firm; Location (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R3 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ent and nep-geo
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.bu.edu/econ/ied/dp/papers/dp125.doc
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://www.bu.edu/econ/ied/dp/papers/dp125.doc [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.bu.edu/econ/ied/dp/papers/dp125.doc)

Related works:
Journal Article: What attracts high performance factories? Management culture and regional advantage (2004)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bos:iedwpr:dp-125

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Boston University - Department of Economics - The Institute for Economic Development Working Papers Series from Boston University - Department of Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Program Coordinator ().