Chapter 9 Economic Geography: Manufacturing and Services

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Tertiary activities

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

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Tertiary

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

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old fashion location theories

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

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economic development

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

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locational controls

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

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Industrial locational decisions

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

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Intensity of spatial interaction

________ decreases with increasing the separation of places.

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behavior of individual firms

The ________ seeking production sites under competitive market conditions.

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Political factors

________ affect the location decision process.

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Supply of consumer services

________ must match the spatial distribution of effective demand.

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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.

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