Chapter 12
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| Cottage industries | show 🗑
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| Economies of scale | show 🗑
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| show | Cluster of inventions and innovations that brought large-scale economic changes in agriculture, commerce- and manufacturing in late eighteenth century Europe.
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| Hinterland | show 🗑
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| Situation | show 🗑
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| Network | show 🗑
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| First Mover Advantage | show 🗑
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| show | Area to which an innovation diffuses and from which the innovation diffuses more broadly.
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| show | processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and heightening interdependence across country borders.
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| show | Manufacturing system in which raw materials are brought into a central location and component parts and the final product are produced at the same location and then shipped globally.
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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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| show | Determining the location of manufacturing based on minimizing three critical expenses: labor, transportation, and agglomeration. Model developed by Alfred Weber.
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| Friction of distance | show 🗑
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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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| Commodification | show 🗑
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| show | the late-twentieth-century tendency for production facilities to be concentrated in the global economic periphery and semiperiphery to take advantage of lower labor costs.
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| Time-space compression | show 🗑
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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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| show | The movement of production from one site to another based on the place-based cost advantages of the new site.
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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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| 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 | Decline in industry in a region or economy. Happens when companies move industry to other regions or mechanize production.
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| show | A region in the northeastern United States that once had an extensive manufacturing industry but has been deindustrialized during the post-Fordist era.
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| High-Technology Corridor | show 🗑
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