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show production of goods in a home or small workshop, typically by hand or with low technology  
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Economies of Scale   show
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Industrial Revolution   show
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Hinterland   show
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Situation   show
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Network   show
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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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Location Theory   show
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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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Friction of distance   show
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Intermodal   show
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Capitalism   show
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Commodification   show
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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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Time-Space compression   show
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Just-in-time delivery   show
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Spatial fix   show
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show connection point in a network, where goods and ideas flow in, out, and through the network  
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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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show tapping into companies that specialize in production around the world to manufacture goods  
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Global production networks   show
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show states with growing industrial and service economies and an increasing presence in global trade  
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Break of Bulk point   show
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Deindustrialization   show
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show a region in the northeastern United States that one had an extensive manufacturing industry but has been deindustrialized during the post-Fordist era  
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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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