An Empirical Update on the Product-Cycle Explanation and Branch-Plant Location in the Nonmetropolitan US South

M Johnson
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M Johnson: Department of Geography, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148, USA

Environment and Planning A, 1991, vol. 23, issue 3, 397-409

Abstract: In this study an empirically based examination of the importance of the labor environment, defined in terms of late-stage product-cycle expectations, to the location of branch plants in the nonmetropolitan US South is presented. The data were derived from a questionnaire-based survey of selected branch-plant managers in eight southern states. The findings suggest that labor factors have been important to the location of branch plants, and that the product-cycle explanation has merit; however, the findings also suggest that the locational behavior of these plants has been a response to conditions not clearly embraced by the product-cycle conceptualization, leading to the conclusion that a more comprehensive model is required to explain industrial location in the rural South.

Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1068/a230397

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