Chapter 9 Economic Geography: Manufacturing and Services

Tertiary activities

________ consist of business and labor specialties that provide services to the primary and secondary sectors, to the general community, and to individuals.

Tertiary

________ and service are broad and imprecise terms that are not limited to the number of activities.

old fashion location theories

The ________ are less effective for explaining the location of high- technology research, development, and manufacturing activities.

economic development

The offshoring of less- skilled production and assembly tasks has spurred the ________ of newly industrializing countries.

locational controls

The ________ for tertiary enterprises are simpler than those for the manufacturing sector.

Industrial locational decisions

________ are based not on a single factor, but on the interplay of a number of considerations.

Intensity of spatial interaction

________ decreases with increasing the separation of places.

behavior of individual firms

The ________ seeking production sites under competitive market conditions.

Political factors

________ affect the location decision process.

Supply of consumer services

________ must match the spatial distribution of effective demand.

locational behaviors

It does not account for the ________ that are uncontrolled by "factors, "directed by national or regional economic development planning goals or influenced by new production technologies and corporate structures.