Foreign Manufacturing Establishments in the Netherlands

Foreign Manufacturing Investment in France and the Uk: A Regional Analysis of Locational Determinants

“…Others have examined the extent to which new foreign direct investment is shifting away from traditional core locations towards peripheral areas. European evidence, for example, has found that whilst core regions dominate (Blackbourne 1978), more recent location decisions show a growing preference for the periphery (McDermott 1977;Kemper & De Smidt 1980;Hill & Munday 1992a).…”

Locational Characteristics of Foreign Equity Joint Venture Investment in China, 1979–1985

“…These vary-ing locational requirements presumably contribute to the differing spatial patterns between countries of origin, as the ownership (or sectoral) advantages of individual countries may differ (Dunning 1988). The limited extent of foreign investment in developing countries means that little is known about the spatial diffusion pattern there, although several studies based on developed economies indicate the relevance of spatial diffusion theory for developing countries (Blackbourn 1972;Kemper and De Smidt 1980). This paper has two primary objectives.…”

“…The amount of EJV investment in cities was related to 25 independent variables of population, economy, transportation, and location. These variables were selected based on assessment of the locational characteristics of places that had attracted foreign EJV investment, and on the causative relationship between the distribution of foreign investment and the population or economic size of locales (Abumere 1982;Blackbourn 1982;Kemper and De Smidt 1980). The models were, for manufacturing investment: facturing and in nonmanufacturing industries in a city, respectively; GVIO was the gross value of industrial output (in 100 million yuan, 1980 constant prices) of that city; L was a locational dummy variable with a value of 1 if the city was a seaport and 0 otherwise; SPT was the total amount of sales of postal and telecommunication services (in 100 million yuan, 1980 constant prices) in that city; AP was a locational dummy variable with a value of 1 if the city had an international airport and 0 otherwise; and NA was the nonagricultural population (in 10,000 people) of that city.…”

Dutch Economic Geography in Retrospect

“…A special meeting ofThe Royal Dutch Geographic Society (KNAG) in 1979 depicted the state of the art on relocation research (especially the review by Pellenbarg 1976/77). The migration of firms was analysed by Dutch geographers from three different viewpoints: (a) suburbanization, especially in the main urban areas of the Randstad Metropolis (studies made by Amsterdam and Utrecht specialists dealing with shortage of space and locational inefficiencies: Kemper 1977, Kruyt 1979, Ottens 1979; (b) longdistance relocations, focasing on manufacturing establishments in particular and relating this mobility to the conditions for and effects of regional policies (studies carried out by geographers from Nijmegen - Grit et al 1977, Wever 1981b-and by Pellenbarg 1976 the Groningen Institute of Geography); (c) establishments of foreign companies in the Netherlands which contributed to regional industrialization (studies by Utrecht geographers: De Smidt 1966, Kemper & De Smidt 1980, Loeve & De Vries 1982.…”