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| show | Savings in cost of production that comes from increasing production of a good.
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| Industrial Revolution | show 🗑
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| Hinterland | show 🗑
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| Situation | show 🗑
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| show | A set of interconnected nodes without a center.
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| show | Benefit a service or product receives by being the first to market.
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| Secondary Hearths | show 🗑
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| Globalization | show 🗑
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| Fordist | show 🗑
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| show | The merging of businesses that serve different steps in one commodity chain.
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| show | Understanding the distribution of cities, industries, services, or consumers with the goal of explaining why places are chosen as sites of production or consumption. The von Thünen model is an example.
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| show | Cost advantages created when similar businesses cluster in the same location. For example, car manufacturers cluster in a city or region to tap into a skilled labor force and access infrastructure, services, and technology.
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| Least Cost Theory | show 🗑
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| show | Difficulty in time and cost that usually comes with increasing distance.
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| Intermodal | show 🗑
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| show | Economic system where people, corporations, and states produce goods and services and trade them on the world market with the goal of making a profit.
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| show | Transformation of goods and services into products that can be bought, sold, or traded.
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| show | The ability of corporations to employ labor from around the world, made possible by the compression of time and space through innovations in communication and transportation systems.
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| show | Increasing connectedness between world cities from improved communication and transportation networks.
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| show | Production system in which parts are delivered as needed to the assembly line so that parts are not warehoused, stored, or overproduced.
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| Node | show 🗑
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| Commodity Chain | show 🗑
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| show | Hiring employees outside the home country of a company in order to reduce the cost of labor inputs for the good or service.
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| Connectivity | show 🗑
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| Global Sourcing | show 🗑
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| show | Pattern of flows from raw material to global product to disposal or reuse of products that shows all the places connected through production.
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| Newly Industrializing Countries (NIC) | show 🗑
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| show | A place where goods are transferred from one form of transport to another. For example, in a port, cargoes of ships are unloaded and put on trains, trucks, or riverboats for inland distribution.
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| show | Areas along or near major transportation corridors that are devoted to the research, development, and sale of high-technology products.
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