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The Need for Location Decisions

The Nature of Location Decisions

Strategic Importance of Location Decisions

Objectives of Location Decisions

Location Options

General Procedure for Making Location Decisions

Factors That Affect Location Decisions

Newsclip: Foreign Workers Relocating to Pittsburgh Cope with Culture Shock

Regional Factors

Community Considerations

Site-Related Factors

Multiple Plant Manufacturing Strategies

Service and Retail Locations

Newsclips: Where to Put the New Store?

                   Vying for Patients, Hospitals Think Location, Location

Global Locations

Facilitating Factors

Newsclip: Congress Approves Three Free Trade Agreements

Benefits

Disadvantages

Risks

Managing Global Operations

Readings: How BP Could Have Avoided Disaster

                 Quiet Migration: Apparel and Textile Companies Head Out of China               

Evaluating Location Alternatives

Locational Cost-Profit-Volume Analysis

The Transportation Model

Factor Rating

The Center of Gravity Method

Summary

Key Terms

Solved Problems

Discussion and Review Questions

Taking Stock

Critical Thinking Exercise

Group/Experiential Learning Exercises

Problems

Case: Hello, Walmart?

Selected Bibliography and Further Reading

Supplement: The Transportation Model








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