TY - JOUR
T1 - Locational behaviour of transnational corporations
T2 - examples from the Australian aluminium industry.
AU - Fagan, R. H.
PY - 1981
Y1 - 1981
N2 - Structural change in Australian manufacturing must be seen in its international context. Transnational corporation strategies have long term implications in all industrial economies. In Australia's case, structural changes are accelerating because of the growth of extractive industries for export. Develops a simplified model of TNC locational behaviour, an element common to all the changes. Increased costs are producing tendencies towards a classical locational outcome. The author argues that the classical model would ignore the effects of political and institutional factors. The aluminium industry is used as an illustration but generalisation based on such a case study could be dangerous.-from Author
AB - Structural change in Australian manufacturing must be seen in its international context. Transnational corporation strategies have long term implications in all industrial economies. In Australia's case, structural changes are accelerating because of the growth of extractive industries for export. Develops a simplified model of TNC locational behaviour, an element common to all the changes. Increased costs are producing tendencies towards a classical locational outcome. The author argues that the classical model would ignore the effects of political and institutional factors. The aluminium industry is used as an illustration but generalisation based on such a case study could be dangerous.-from Author
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0019736484
SP - 51
EP - 86
JO - Australian National University, Canberra, Dept of Human Geography, Publication
JF - Australian National University, Canberra, Dept of Human Geography, Publication
IS - HG-15
ER -