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Posada, Mariño Pablo. "Location, location, location choice models." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99091.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2015.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-112).
Cities are, now more than ever before, the main centers of population and production. The growing demand for limited urban space is increasing urban complexity and magnifying both positive and negative externalities of urban agglomeration: increasing productivity, innovation, and social interaction, but also exacerbating living costs, pollution, inequality, congestion, etc. In order to build sustainable cities and have a net positive balance of urban externalities, we need to better understand the motivations of the different agents competing in the race for urban space. Location choice models can help to shine a light on these motivations by providing insights on agents' location preferences. They are also the building blocks of more comprehensive urban models and simulations that can help navigate urban complexity. This thesis explores location choice models for homeowner households and firms in Greater Boston. Specific research questions that these models can help answer include: How do residential location preferences vary with life cycles? What industries value clustering the most? These topics are important given (1) forecasted demographic changes, specifically the aging of the baby-boomers, and (2) the continuing move from a manufacturing-based economy to a service and knowledge-based economy. These changes in population and economy will likely require a change in housing stock in order to better match supply with demand, and changes in the stock of commercial space in order to continue boosting the firms that drive the economy of the region. The thesis also explores the data-related uncertainty of these models (how model estimation changes with different data sources) as well as their temporal transferability (how do preferences change over time). The location choice analysis for households suggests that income has a bigger impact on willingness to pay for location attributes than age of the head of the household or household size. The firm analysis indicates that firms in the professional service and health and education service sector place more value on proximity to jobs in the same industry and density than firms in other sectors. These preferences have strengthened over time. An in-depth analysis, such as the one presented in this thesis, of what city agents look for in a location can, and should, inform planning policies and intervention in order to better match location preferences with opportunities.
by Pablo Posada Mariño.
M.C.P.
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Colomé, Rosa. "Consumer choice in competitive location models." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7330.
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L'objectiu bàsic d'aquesta tesis doctoral és la incorporació dels models de preferència revelada d'elecció del consumidor en els models de localització competitiva en entorns discrets que tenen com a objectiu maximitzar la captura. Després de la introducció i de la revisió de la literatura, el capítol 3 analitza la importància que té reflectir la conducta real del consumidor respecte a com aquest té en compte la distancia, i com això afecta a la optimalitat de les localitzacions que s'obtenen en aquests models.
Després d'analitzar la característica distancia, el capítol 4 presenta una nova metodologia per determinar quines altres característiques (a més de la distancia) s'han d'introduir en els models de Màxima Captura i com s'han de representar fent servir el model MCI (Multiplicative Competitive Interaction model) com a model d'elecció del consumidor. La metodologia s'aplica a dos entorns reals: Barcelona i Milton Keynes.
El capítol 5 presenta el "New Chance - Constrained Maximum Capture Location Problem". Aquest model de màxima captura, a més d'introduir les teories d'elecció del consumidor, introdueixen una nova restricció estocàstica de llindar de rendibilitat.
Finalment en el capítol 6 es presenten els algoritmes desenvolupats per a resoldre els models presentats en els capítols 3 i 5. Concretament, es desenvolupen i testejen dues metaheurístiques basades en les metaheurístiques GRASP, Ant System i TABU Search.
Esta tesis doctoral tiene como objetivo la incorporación de los modelos de preferencia revelada de elección del consumidor en los modelos de localización competitiva en entorno discreto que tienen como objetivo maximizar la captura.
Para ello, después de la introducción y de la revisión de la literatura, el capítulo 3 analiza la importancia que tiene reflejar la conducta real del consumidor respecto a cómo éste considera la distancia, y cómo esto afecta a la optimalidad de las localizaciones que se obtienen en estos modelos.
Una vez analizada la característica distancia, el capítulo 4 presenta una nueva metodología para determinar que otras características (además de la distancia) se deben introducir en los modelos de Máxima Captura y cómo se tienen que representar éstas utilizando el modelo MCI (Multiplicative Competitive Interaction model) como modelo de elección del consumidor. La metodología se aplica a dos entornos reales: Barcelona y Milton Keynes.
El capitulo 5 presenta el "New Chance - Constrained Maximum Capture Location Problem". Este modelo de máxima captura, además de introducir las teorías de elección del consumidor, introduce una nueva restricción estocástica de umbral de rentabilidad.
Finalmente en el capítulo 6 se presentan los algoritmos desarrollados para resolver los modelos presentados en los capítulos 3 y 5. Concretamente, se desarrollan y testean dos metaheurísticas basadas en las metaheurísticas GRASP, Ant System y TABU Search.
The main aim of this thesis is the introduction of consumer store - choice theories in the discrete competitive location models that have a maximum captured objective function.
After the introduction and the literature review, chapter 3 analyses the importance of consumer behaviour with respect to distance in the optimality of locations obtained by a traditional discrete competitive location models.
Once the distance attribute has been analysed, chapter 4 presents a methodology for determining which store attributes (other than distance) should be included in a new version of the Maximum Capture Discrete Competitive Location models to the retail sector, as well as how these parameters ought to be reflected. The revealed preference store choice model use to define this methodology is the Multiplicative Competitive Interaction model. The methodology is tested to the supermarket sector in two different scenarios: Barcelona and Milton Keynes .
Chapter 5 presents the "New Chance - Constrained Maximum Capture Location Problem". , which is a maximum capture model that takes into account the store-choice theories and has an stochastic threshold constraint.
Finally, chapter 6 presents the algorithms developed to solved the models presented in this thesis (chapter 3 and chapter 5). Basically, this chapter presents the formulation development and the computational experience, for a two metaheuristics. These are based in three metaheuristics: GRASP, Ant System and TABU Search.
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Sultan, Zahid. "Household location choice and travel behaviour." Thesis, Ulster University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.556480.
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Studies have shown that neighbourhood design is one of the key factors affecting the household transport mode choice. Traditionally quantitative methods have been applied to evaluate the interaction between spatial planning and household travel behaviour. This study is based on multi-method approach (a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods) to identify the key motivational and attitudinal factors and to understand the relationship between residential location choices and transport mode choice. The research adopted an innovative approach to the evaluation of this relationship compared to the more traditional direct or indirect valuation techniques. Another unique aspect of this research is the application of the Q-method. It is a research tool which can measure and show what a respondent really thinks. By conducting focus group discussions, subjective and objective survey analysis in Greater Belfast Metropolitan Area, one of the UK's most car dependent metropolitan areas, this research incorporated the different methods to evaluate the relationship between transportation and land-use planning along with the varying methods to elicit respondent's attitude and preference towards neighbourhood choice decision and travel mode choice. This study found a significant association between neighbourhood design characteristics and transport mode choice. The results show significant evidence of residential self- selection (relationship between residential location choice and travel behaviour) but the explicit causality of direction cannot be established. It implies that the conclusive statement as to whether the quality of neighbourhood environment influences travel behaviour or that travel preferences affect residential choice cannot be made based on the multi-method approach used in this research. Overall, neighbourhood safety and proximity to friends and relatives were found to be the most important residential area factors. Generally, residents give more preference to housing unit features rather than neighbourhood design factors in the residential location decision. The study confirms that people select their neighbourhood according to the set of attitudes. For example people with a pro-public transport attitude select the neighbourhood with greater PT access, in contrast, people with a car dominant attitude prefer neighbourhoods with open space and tranquillity. Quantitative analysis reveals that trip frequencies are mostly associated with household socio-demographic factors whereas trip length is associated with neighbourhood design characteristics.
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Freedman, Matthew L. "Location choice, product choice, and the human resource practices of firms." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7153.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: Economics. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Hunt, John Douglas. "Modelling commuter parking location choice and its influence on mode choice." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.237902.
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Crim, Stephen J. (Stephen Johnson). "Developing a theory of nightclub location choice." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44354.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-77).
This work is an investigation of the factors that influence where nightclubs locate within a city. Nightclubs, like other social spaces, provide important social and economic benefits in the urban environment. As amenities, they attract labor to cities, and as sites of social exchange, they provide space in which individuals can create the networks necessary for innovative industrial production, especially in the fine arts and other creative sectors. Nightclubs also appear to have a role in neighborhood upgrading or gentrification. Despite their importance, this is the first study on the factors that determine nightclub location choice. New York City and primarily Manhattan were chosen as sites for investigation because of the City's high number of nightclubs, and because of the regulatory as well as real estate pressures that are currently affecting the industry. A variety of sources, including personal interviews with nightclub owners and their employees, various government documents, as well as spatial and non-spatial databases, were consulted to formulate conclusions. As is the case with other forms of retail, nightclub owners are most concerned with patron accessibility and proximity to complimentary businesses when deciding where to locate their businesses. Other factors are also discussed, as is a theory of how super-regional nightclub clusters form. Not surprisingly, the author finds that nightclub location choice is highly constrained by the content, administration, and evolution of various city and state laws. Finally, recommendations designed to ease the regulatory burden on nightclubs while still controlling for nuisance concerns are presented for both government agencies and the industry.
by Stephen J. Crim.
M.C.P.
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Benchemam, Messaoud. "Disaggregate behavioural airport choice models." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1986. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/11974.
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The identification of the distribution of air passengers among airports is an important task of the airport planner. It would be useful to understand how trip makers choose among competing airports. The ultimate purpose of this study is to research into , passengers' choice of airport so that the airport system can be planned on a more reliable basis. The choice of airport of passengers originating from central England in 1975 is explained by constructing multinomial disaggregate behavioural models of logit form. The data used for model calibration, were collected during two Civil Aviation Authority surveys. This work makes contribution to: -The definition of the major determinants of airport choice, -The responsiveness of passengers, choice to changes in these determinants, - The policy implications for the regional airports - The transferability of the model in time and space. The method of analysis has been selected after outlining the potential advantages and shortcomings of logit and probit models and after a test on the validity of the Independence from Irrelevant Alternatives (I.I.A.) property has been carried out. The results show that the multinomial logit model used for the airport choice is good in terms of its explanatory ability and successful in predicting the choices actually made. Travel time to the airport, frequency of flights and air fare are found to be decisive factors for a passenger to select a given airport but are not of equal importance. By influencing-these factors, it appears that there exists room for the transport planner to shift traffic from one airport to another to have an economically and/or environmentally efficient airport system. In their original form, the models have been tested and found not to be transferable to the London area in 1978. However, after a Bayesian updating procedure was applied, the business and inclusive tours models were transferable. The leisure model was not statistically transferable but had a good predictive ability while the domestic model was not transferable. Finally, subsequent directions ·for further research are outlined.
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Jain, Naveen K. "Resource, Strategies, Location Determinants, And Host Country Location Choice By Emerging Market Firms." FIU Digital Commons, 2009. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/147.
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The extant literature had studied the determinants of the firms’ location decisions with help of host country characteristics and distances between home and host countries. Firm resources and its internationalization strategies had found limited attention in this literature. To address this gap, the research question in this dissertation was whether and how firms’ resources and internationalization strategies impacted the international location decisions of emerging market firms. To explore the research question, data were hand-collected from Indian software firms on their location decisions taken between April 2000 and March 2009. To analyze the multi-level longitudinal dataset, hierarchical linear modeling was used. The results showed that the internationalization strategies, namely market-seeking or labor-seeking had direct impact on firms’ location decision. This direct relationship was moderated by firm resource which, in case of Indian software firms, was the appraisal at CMMI level-5. Indian software firms located in developed countries with a market-seeking strategy and in emerging markets with a labor-seeking strategy. However, software firms with resource such as CMMI level-5 appraisal, when in a labor-seeking mode, were more likely to locate in a developed country over emerging market than firms without the appraisal. Software firms with CMMI level-5 appraisal, when in market-seeking mode, were more likely to locate in a developed country over an emerging market than firms without the appraisal. It was concluded that the internationalization strategies and resources of companies predicted their location choices, over and above the variables studied in the theoretical field of location determinants.
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Bayoh, Isaac Moussa. "Estimating the determinants of household residential location choice using a multinomial, discrete choice model." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374586719.
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Nunes, Letícia Faria de Carvalho. "Practice location of physicians: a discrete choice model approach." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/13827.
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Economists and policymakers have long been concerned with increasing the supply of health professionals in rural and remote areas. This work seeks to understand which factors influence physicians’ choice of practice location right after completing residency. Differently from previous papers, we analyse the Brazilian missalocation and assess the particularities of developing countries. We use a discrete choice model approach with a multinomial logit specification. Two rich databases are employed containing the location and wage of formally employed physicians as well as details from their post-graduation. Our main findings are that amenities matter, physicians have a strong tendency to remain in the region they completed residency and salaries are significant in the choice of urban, but not rural, communities. We conjecture this is due to attachments built during training and infrastructure concerns.
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Busson, Henri. "Four essays on location choice : theoretical and experimental studies." Thesis, Rennes 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015REN1G019.
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Les choix de localisation des ménages conduisent à divers problèmes tels que la ségrégation entre ménages riches et ménages pauvres et à des inégalités spatiales entre les régions. Cette thèse étudie ces phénomènes à l'aide de modèles théoriques et d'expériences menées en laboratoire. Pour commencer, une expérience dont l’objectif est d’analyser les conditions sous lesquelles est réalisée pour voir sous quelles conditions différentes structures urbaines peuvent être obtenues. En effet, aux Etats-Unis, les riches sont majoritairement en banlieue et les pauvres en centre-ville alors que l'opposé est observé dans les grandes villes européennes. Il apparait que le ratio « coût d'opportunité du temps/la demande de logements » est un facteur essentiel pour expliquer ces types de structure. Ensuite, une étude théorique est menée pour obtenir des structures de villes plus complexes, où les riches et les pauvres sont beaucoup moins en situation de ségrégation. La théorie montre que les politiques publiques peuvent donner des résultats très différents. Puis, nous étudions la répartition du capital humain entre les régions. Dans les pays où elle est inégale, on observe une croissance trop faible dans les régions pauvres et une augmentation des inégalités spatiales. Pour combattre ces inégalités, il est montré qu'il est possible de faire revenir les travailleurs qualifiés dans les régions pauvres car il existe des complémentarités avec les travailleurs non qualifiés. Des études ont montré que ces derniers augmentent la productivité des travailleurs qualifiés. Enfin, une étude expérimentale est faite pour étudier les choix de consommation. Nous testons l’hypothèse de l'existence d'un consommateur représentatif souvent faite en Nouvelle Economie Géographique. Il en ressort que les modèles existant ne prennent pas assez en compte l’hétérogénéité des goûts des consommateursSeveral problems such as spatial inequalities between regions and spatial segregation within cities arise from households’ location choices. The purpose of this dissertation is to address these problems with theoretical and experimental studies. To begin, a laboratory experiment has been conducted in order to understand under which conditions different urban structures emerge. Indeed, in the U.S., spatial segregation occurs and the richer households are located in the suburbs while the poor ones are located downtown. The opposite pattern is observed in several major European cities. It appears in our study that the ratio ‘transportation costs/demand for land’ is a key factor for explaining these two types of segregation. Then, a theoretical model is used to reproduce several types of urban structures, where poor and rich households are located in the same neighborhoods. The theory predicts that policy interventions can lead to very different outcome. Then, the spatial distribution of human capital among regions is studied. Because skilled workers are mainly attracted toward wealthier regions, economic growth is lower in the poorer regions and spatial inequalities increase. The theoretical model predicts that it is possible to bring back the skilled workers in poor regions because there exists complementarities between skilled and unskilled workers. Indeed, the presence of unskilled workers enhances skilled workers' productivity, making their return more profitable. To finish, a laboratory experiment has been conducted to study consumers' behavior. Because in New Economic Geography models, the existence of a representative consumer is often assumed. The relevance of this hypothesis is tested. It appears that the existing models do not take enough into account heterogeneity in tastes among the consumers
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Lundberg, Maya. "Location choice of private primary healthcare providers in Sweden : After the Primary Care Choice Reform." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Nationalekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-174828.
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This study aims to analyse the location choices made by private primary healthcare providers as a result of the Primary Care Choice Reform. This will be done by analysing a unique dataset covering all new private primary healthcare providers during the time period of 2008 to 2018 in Sweden’s 290 municipalities. In order to examine the probability of a private primary healthcare provider locating in a given municipality, two logit regression models based on the year 2018 containing the number of private primary healthcare providers as the dependent variable, will be used for the empirical analysis. The results are presented as marginal effects and are calculated from the coefficients of the two logit regression models. In addition, there exist alternative measures to the dependent variable when analysing the location choice of private primary healthcare providers. For this reason, an alternative regression will be presented where the dependent variable is the share of healthcare providers in the municipality that is privately owned, to see if any new conclusions can be drawn. There is a broad range of possible determinants for where to locate. Those included in this study are the Care Need Index, political party, domestic net migration, distance, socio-economic variables and a variable measuring the population size. Furthermore, all private primary healthcare providers will be grouped according to which county council they belong to, since all county councils have different reimbursement systems. The findings imply that private primary healthcare providers are, on average, less likely to locate in municipalities defined as rural, compared to municipalities defined as urban. Socio-economic factors such as elderly people and income further influence the location decision, where people with less socio-economic status are at a disadvantage. For this reason, there are some questions about if the objectives of the Primary Care Choice Reform have been achieved and for whom.
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Dimitropoulou, Dimitra. "Multinational enterprises and location choice : FDI determinants in the EU15." Thesis, University of Reading, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494795.
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This thesis examines host location determinants of FDI in the context of EU15 countries using both a macro and a micro dataset. At the macro level, the analysis is conducted on a panel of EU15 inward FDI flows in order to identify the major host-country factors attracting FDI and the prevalent strategic motivations of the MNE into countries. After distinguishing between core and periphery EU15 countries and between investments from different parts of the world, we conclude that major differences exist in MNE motivation according to economic development levels and firm nationality. At the micro level we employ a different dataset of FDI projects into UK regions and examine the location decision of the MNE, first based on firm-specific attributes only and then based on firm-specific as well as region-specific characteristics. Our conclusions from this analysis are that London is the region which benefits most from inward investment and that regional specialisation is the single most important host location factor for regional FDI attraction.
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Livy, Mitchell R. "Assessing the Impact of Environmental Amenities on Residential Location Choice." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1434722062.
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BARCELLOS, SILVIA HELENA MOREIRA FRANCO S. L. "THE IMPACT OF TAXES ON FIRMS ORGANIZATIONAL FORM AND LOCATION CHOICE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=5220@1.
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Os reais efeitos da tributação sobre a economia só podem
ser entendidos se levada em conta a resposta dos agentes
econômicos a essa tributação. Esta dissertação trata de
dois possíveis tipos de resposta das firmas ao serem
taxadas: mudança da forma de organização e de localização.
A primeira parte da dissertação mostra como a estrutura de
taxação da renda no Brasil incentiva profissionais liberais
a se organizarem como pessoa jurídica. A análise empírica,
feita com microdados da ECINF, indica que a decisão desses
profissionais de constituir pessoa jurídica está fortemente
relacionada a parâmetros tributários. A segunda parte da
dissertação estuda o caso de dois municípios na região
metropolitana de São Paulo que reduziram drasticamente as
alíquotas de ISS durante a década de 90, participando de
uma espécie de guerra fiscal a nível municipal. Analisando
dados da RAIS de 1994 a 2000 encontramos evidências de que
esse corte na alíquota atraiu um número significativo de
firmas para os dois municípios. Entretanto, o número de
empregos criados nos setores de serviços não acompanhou o
expressivo aumento no número de firmas. Nos dois casos
estudados, há evidências de que grande parte das firmas
muda de comportamento com o objetivo principal de diminuir
o montante de imposto devido; estas mudanças sendo, na
realidade, mecanismos de planejamento tributário.The real impact of taxes on the economy can only be assessed when we consider the behavioral responses of economic agents due to these taxes. Two kinds of responses are studied in this thesis: changes in organizational form and location choices. The first part of this study shows how income taxation in Brazil gives incentives to some classes of taxpayers to incorporate in order to reduce their tax burden. Microdata on these taxpayers indicate that the probability of incorporation is strongly related to tax rules. The second part of the study uses the case of two cities engaged in fiscal competition in order to measure the sensitivity of firm s location choices to municipal tax rates. Firm data show that these two cities, located in the greater São Paulo area, were able to attract a large number of firms to their territory. However, data from firms surveys indicate that the number of jobs did not grow accordingly. In both cases studied, there are evidences that firms change their behaviour with the main objective of avoiding taxes.
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Li, Yu 1976. "Impact of modern logistics on industrial location choice and property markets." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42259.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-152).
The debate on the impact of modern logistics on industrial location choice and property markets focuses on (1) whether modern inventory control and supply- chain configuration consolidate manufacturing and distribution locations and (2) whether modern logistics have reduced the demand for industrial real estate. In this research, I test the hypothesis that modern logistics have been restructuring industrial manufacturing and distribution networks, dispersing firms into certain regions to achieve the economies of dispersion, and reducing the demand for industrial space per unit of industrial output. The methodology used includes (a) theoretical analysis, (b) statistical and econometric analysis, (c) case studies, and (d) comparative analysis. Because the theoretical analysis does not provide a clear conclusion, I rely on empirical analyses to derive the actual impact or implications. Principle findings from the U.S. empirical study include (1) the changes in the distribution sector have a more significant impact on industrial location choice and property markets than the changes in the manufacturing sector; (2) both manufacturing and distribution industries have been dispersed in the past two decades; (3) improvement of inventory control is almost ubiquitous and, within a supply chain, certain players' gains are not necessarily at the cost of their suppliers' or customers' losses; (4) the traditional partial stock-adjustment model using yearly data does not explain the industrial property market well.
(cont.) Major findings from the China case studies include (1) modern logistics enable manufacturers to achieve cost reductions and service-level improvements simultaneously, and the impacts on their industrial location choice and space demand are consistent with the empirical findings of their U.S. counterparts; (2) with the expansion of globalization, advances in information technology, development of efficient markets, and increased demand from sophisticated customers, location choice and demand for industrial space will continue to be determined by the requirements of efficient supply chains.
by Yu Li.
Ph.D.
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Pires, Armando José Garcia. "R&D investment, international trade, industrial location and multinational choice." Doctoral thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/3570.
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Xu, Yuanquan. "A discrete choice based facility location model for inland container depots." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 1999. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1113.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 1999.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains x, 126 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-103).
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Ozturk, Erdogan. "Accounting for space in intrametropolitan household location choices." Columbus, OH : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1054271160.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiv, 134 p.: ill. (some col.). Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Elena G. Irwin, Dept. of Agricultural, Environmental, and Developmental Economics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-134).
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Lee, Hea Sun. "Internationalisation of I-Business Firms: The Role of Distance on Location Choice." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20081.
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With the advent of the Internet and other related computer technology, i-business firms have internationalised significantly in the last two decades. They have changed the way businesses operate and used the Internet to expand beyond national borders. With the emergence of the Internet, i-business firms may have fewer obstacles to internationalisation and expand into foreign markets at a fast pace. However, other researchers argue that distance is relevant to i-business firms due to unfamiliarity and uncertainty of international markets. These considerations raise research questions motivating the study and therefore, the research proposes to explore how does distance affect internationalisation and how do market size and internet penetration rate as moderators affect the link between distance and internationalisation? In the thesis, I examine the role of three dimensions of distance (i.e. cultural, administrative, and geographic) on one theme of internationalisation (i.e. location choice). In addition, I analyse the moderating role of market size and internet penetration rate on the relationship between three dimensions of distance and location choice. I use logistic regression analysis to determine the role of distance and the moderating role of market size and internet penetration rate. Using a data set of 125 i-business firms in 2016 and 2017, I find that cultural and administrative distance are negatively related to the location choice of i-business firms, largely confirming previous studies. The results also suggest that market size and internet penetration rate positively moderate the relationship between two dimensions of distance (i.e. cultural and geographic) and the location choice of i-business firms.
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Alabi, Ijeoma Uchenna. "Tenant’s choice of residential property location in Mankweng Township, Polokwane Local Municipality." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1163.
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Thesis (M. Dev.) -- University of Limpopo, 2013The aim of the study was to carry out an analysis of the factors influencing tenants’ choice of residential property location in Mankweng Township. The study used both quantitative and qualitative research approaches. The structured questionnaire, interview and documented literature were used to collect data. The data were analysed using the SPSS statistical package and the Excel spread sheet. To this end, specific working objectives were formulated as follows: to identify the types of residential property in the study area, to determine the factors which influence the choice of residential property location in the study area and lastly, to compare the relationships that exist among the residents in Mankweng Township. The results of the research showed that among all the factors marital status, age, household’s size, race, education and income were not among the factors influencing the choice of residential location in Mankweng Township. However, gender, employment status, distance from city centre, hospital, place of worship, security or police station, water and electricity significantly influenced the choice of residential location choice in Mankweng Township. The study therefore recommends government to be more responsive and active in the provision of urban infrastructure and services in every neighbourhood. This will help address the major reason why tenants search for accommodation from one location to another. In addition, real estate investors should consider the availability of infrastructure before choosing a location for community development. Thus, when urban facilities and services are evenly distributed, this may enhance proper development in the community
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Kim, Hyungtai. "Modeling of micro-spatial employment location patterns and its application to the Puget Sound Region : count and choice approaches /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10826.
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Jeong, Eui Kyo. "Divisionalization, product cannibalization and product location choice: Evidence from the U.S. automobile industry." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/167.
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This study argues that a firm's product location choice may be a function of the firm's way of splitting the product market (i.e., divisionalization) and the concern for product cannibalization at the division and the firm levels. The focus of this study is at the division level and a division's new product location choice vis-à-vis its own products (intra-divisional new product distance), the products of a rival division of competing firms (inter-firm divisional new product distance), and the products of a sister division of the same firm (intra-firm divisional new product distance). The hypotheses were tested using data on the U.S. automobile industry between 1979 and 1999. The results show that a focal division with a high level of inter-firm divisional domain overlap with a rival division, relative to the focal division's own domain, is more likely to locate its new product (here new car model) closer to that rival's existing car models. And it was also found that divisional density affects a division's new product location choice. But this study didn't find any significant role of divisional status on new product location choice. And contrary to our expectation, the results of intra-firm divisional domain overlap and new product location choice suggest that inter-divisional product cannibalization might not be such an important concern when divisions introduce their new products, as we had originally expected. By addressing the firm's competitive engagement in the context of a division's new product location choice, this study expands the basic logic of market overlap at the firm level into the unit- or division-level, and highlights how a division's new product location choice is affected by intra-firm divisional structural relationship as well as interfirm divisional structural relationship. In so doing, this study hopes to contribute to the literature on divisionalization, new product location choice, competition at the unit-level, and product cannibalization, among others.
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Pete, Kristof, and Jan Kantola. "Regional House Price Differentials in Sweden : Factors that Influence the Choice of Location." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Economics, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-775.
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The purpose of the thesis was to study price differentials of housing in and outside of Swedish cities. When doing so, the average price of detached houses in every Swedish municipality and city was taken. The prices were based on the purchasing sum (köpeskillinen) while the investigated time period was 1995 and 2005. To separate between the different areas in Sweden, the country itself was divided into two separate regions; south, and north. South was used twice, once with the three major city areas (Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö/Lund) included and once when they were not. Within each region two groups of locations could be differentiated; economic centres (Stockholm as an example) and sub-municipalities (Danderyd as an example). Economic centers represented “in cities” and sub-municipalities “outside of cities”. In addition to the main purpose, we also wanted to examine what variables that are affecting the price of housing. Therefore; according to our theoretical background, income, working opportunities and availability of teachers were the important factors.
The empirical analysis signified that there is a clear average price differential between economic centers and sub-municipalities in all three regions. Detached houses in economic centers have become more expensive relative to sub-municipalities. The largest difference can be observed in the three major city areas, where the most extreme price changes have occurred. Consequently, it can be said that working opportunities had the foremost effect on house prices in the majority of our research areas. It was also found that income had a significant influence at several locations. Teachers per 100 students had on the other hand little or no effect at all on house prices. Moreover, where it was significant it affected houses prices negatively.
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Hodge, Samantha. "Spatial patterns in serial murder : a conceptual model of disposal site location choice." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266365.
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Davidson, Natalia. "The impact of spatial concentration on enterprise performance and location choice in Russia." Thesis, Lille 1, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LIL12015/document.
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Les données sur les firmes, les villes et les régions russes des années 1999-2008 sont utilisées pour analyser l’impact de l’agglomération et du potentiel de marché (PM) sur la productivité des firmes et leur choix de localisation. Le salaire, l’infrastructure de transport et le climat économique sont pris en compte. La motivation est de trouver les sources de développement des villes, dont les conditions initiales et la situation actuelle sont considérablement différentes. Les économies d’agglomération sont basées sur le partage, l’adéquation et l’apprentissage. Le Chapitre 3 montre que les économies d’urbanisation et de diversité ainsi que l’effet de PM sont positifs. Les économies de localisation ont la forme de U inversé dans la plupart des cas, mais elles sont positives pour les monovilles ; les économies d’urbanisation sont aussi importantes pour celles-ci. Le Chapitre 4 montre que les économies d’urbanisation résultant de la présence des firmes nationales et étrangères sont positives ; en même temps, les économies générées par les firmes étrangères sont plus importantes. Les économies de localisation qui proviennent des firmes nationales ont la forme de U inversé ; celles qui proviennent des firmes étrangères sont contradictoires. Le Chapitre 5 étudie le choix de localisation par les firmes parmi les villes. Les économies d’urbanisation ainsi que le PM ont l’impact positif sur un choix de localisation. Les économies de localisation gardent la forme de U inversé. Le choix de localisation par les firmes étrangères est plus influencé par l’agglomération, le PM et le climat économique que celui fait par les firmes nationales à cause des possibilités de choix plus grandesFirm, city and regional level data for Russia, years 1999-2008, is employed to analyze the effects of agglomeration level and home market potential (HMP) on enterprise productivity and location choice. City average wages, transport infrastructure and business environment are considered. Our motivation is search for sources of economic development in the Russian cities, which differ significantly in their initial conditions and present situation. Agglomeration economies are associated with the opportunities for input sharing, matching and knowledge spillovers. In Chapter 3, urbanization and diversity economies as well as HMP are found to be positive. Localization economies have an inverted U shape for the majority of specifications, but are positive for the monotowns, showing the importance of firms’ concentration in the same industry for enterprise performance. Urbanization economies are important for the monotowns too. In Chapter 4, it is found that urbanization economies arising from presence both of national and foreign firms are positive, while those arising from the foreign firms’ presence are relatively larger. Localization economies arising from the national firms’ presence have an inverted U shape; localization effects arising from the foreign firms’ presence are contradictory. In Chapter 5, enterprise location choice for a city is estimated. Both urbanization economies and HMP positively affect location choice; localization economies keep the inverted U shape. Foreign firms’ choice for a city is more affected by agglomeration, HMP and institutional infrastructure, probably as they have greater opportunities than the national firms to choose location
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Yu, Shang-Hwa, and 余尚樺. "Location Choice with Switching Costs." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/zk84su.
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碩士國立暨南國際大學
經濟學系
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In this thesis, I consider a model with a two-period market in which two firms produce differentiated goods that are substitutes to each other. Consumers choose to buy one unit of the good from one of the firms in each period. For a proportion of consumers, switching costs are incurred in the second period if they switch from one firm to the other. I study the effect of switching costs on the firms’ prices, profits and product differentiation in this setting. I find that prices are lower in the first period and higher in the second period, in comparison to the benchmark model without switching costs, as firms compete more intensively in order to obtain a larger market share in the first period. I focus on how the proportion of consumers with switching costs affects the degree of product differentiation. When this proportion is not too large, then firms differentiate more in order to soften the intensity of price competition. On the contrary, when this proportion is large enough, then firms differentiate less as the market share consideration dominates the price competition consideration.
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"Consumer choice in competitive location models." Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2002. http://www.tesisenxarxa.net/TDX-0227103-135727/.
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Wang, Chin-Yu, and 王瑾瑜. "Advertisement Spillover Effect on Location Choice." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43227044069515277488.
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碩士國立高雄大學
經營管理研究所
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When firms compete with their rivals, they invest in advertisement to provide consumers information for enhancing consumers’ awareness of their product quality. But informative advertisement has the spillover phenomena in nature. When a firm advertises its product quality, advertisement effect will diffuse to its rival’s product. Consumers have two ways to obtain the advertisement product: (1) Consumers pay the transportation costs for purchasing products. (2) The firms spend the distribution costs delivering the products to consumers’ locations. We adopt Hotelling model and set up a three-stage game model for investigating the advertisement effects on firms’ location choices. The results of both cases show the advertisement spillover effect will positively influence the two firms’ clustering considerations. Though the two cases have the same result, the conclusions can be used in different application. When the transportation cost is paid by consumer, the firms will cluster because of higher spillover effect; when the distribution cost is paid by firm, the number of firms will decrease since the spillover effect is higher. We further compare this paper with Nelson’s research. Nelson made a distinction between qualities of advertisement goods: search goods and experience goods and concluded that stores sell search goods cluster more than stores sell experience goods. We consider advertisement for search goods can be transmitted easily and then search goods have greater advertisement spillover effect than experience goods. Our finding of advertisement spillover effect is identical with Nelson’s conclusion.
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Chang, Chia-Wei, and 張家維. "The Location Choice of Information Service Industry." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92845440709575172348.
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碩士國立中山大學
公共事務管理研究所
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Abstract Low wage is seemed to be the powerful weapon of the firms in China and Southeast Asia. Many traditional and high-tech firms started to build the manufacturing base in those places. The condition causes the gap in our industry structure. In order to improve the industry level and national competitiveness of Taiwan, information service industry, which has the features both from high-tech and service industry, plays an important role during the process. Location expresses the spatial distribution and accumulative behavior of the firms. Lack of researches about the location choice behaviors of information service industry is the reason why I choose the topic. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which has the characteristic with multi-criteria, indefinite, group decision-making, qualitative, is the method what I use in this research. Analyzing the questionnaire, the sequence from high to low of the priorities of the locational choice factors is: market factors, industrial relevance factors, policy factors, environment factors and cost factors. The results what we found in the research are listed below: 1.Comparing with traditional manufacturing industry, cost factor is not as important as before for information service industry. 2.Why information service industry firms think highly of industrial relevance factors and policy factors is inherited from the high-tech industry. 3.Why information service industry firms think highly of market factors is inherited from the service industry. 4.The result, which makes us surprised very much, is that information service industry does not emphasize the agglomeration effect of the firms. It maybe means that the need of building a science park may not be caused by the benefit of agglomeration.
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Lo, Wen-Hsien, and 羅文憲. "The Office Location Choice of Business Group." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58646262381125768491.
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碩士國立屏東商業技術學院
不動產經營系(所)
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Previous relatively studies indicated that the independent offices were aggregated in CBD to obtain benefits of economic agglomeration, and headquarters and branch offices have different location choice. Where are the locations of parent office or subsidiary office？Parent office will tendency of spatial clustering? Various industries, and different groups’ subsidiary office location selection and spatial clustering? At present, there are little literatures to discuss. The empirical data comes from「BUSINESS GROUP IN TAIWAN」(2006).By using Multi-nomial Logistic Regression Model to confirm distribution factors of parent office or subsidiary office. The results of studies indicate that the location of traditional industry parent office will be in CBD, and traditional industry parent office will be aggregated at CBD. The location of high-tech industry parent office will be in suburban, and high-tech industry parent office will be aggregated at suburban. The location of financial service industry and wholesale and retail industry will be in CBD. In CBD, subsidiary office will choose around traditional industry parent office and financial service industry parent office. In suburban, subsidiary office will choose around high-tech industry parent office. Nearby bank branch have influenced the location of parent office in CBD. Nearby expressway and interchange have influenced the location of parent office and subsidiary office in suburban. Nearby MRT stations and railway stations have influenced the location of parent office in urban areas, Nearby MRT stations and railway stations have influenced the location of subsidiary office in urban areas and CBD, more significantly in the urban areas.
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Tsai, I.-Fen, and 蔡宜芬. "THE IMPACT OF DIVERSIFICATION ON LOCATION CHOICE." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53667878344084807366.
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碩士銘傳大學
國際企業學系碩士班
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This study will explore whether overseas subsidiaries due to the degree of diversification and the choice of location is different, in order to set up overseas subsidiaries locations in Taiwan for the study. Enterprise operators in order to improve corporate profits and the continuation of life, will be a variety of diversified way to achieve survival enterprises. Around the world, a large number of industry cluster, there have different works. In recent years, industry planners and local governments attempt to emulate the development model of the Silicon Valley and the Hsinchu Science Park, with space for proximity, complementary resources, technology exchange, so that the companies have the same industry can bring critical mass for this area. In response to the whole economic liberalization and internationalization, many companies in order to extend the territory of diversification, the pursuit of growth through diversification strategy, however, an internal and external conditions in areas also attract overseas subsidiaries in Taiwan. Therefore, this study will explore different company size, diversification in the location advantages of the moderator, the choice of location of the subsidiaries, however, the subject of this study was the establishment of 3468 subsidiaries in New Taipei City, Taipei, Kaohsiung in Taiwan''s 53 administrative regions, and then from regression analysis and cluster analysis, and get the following conclusions: 1. Company size can affect the degree of diversification, including the larger size of the company have more related diversification. 2. The degree of diversification will affect location choice of subsidiaries due to the similarity of the industry and choose investment location. 3. In the location advantages of moderator, the degree of diversification will not affect the location choice of subsidiaries.
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Chung, Lan-kun, and 衷嵐焜. "Study of applying Discrete Location Model to fast-food delivery store location choice." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61299115860479507028.
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碩士國立中央大學
土木工程學系
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In urban areas of Taiwan, land price per square meter for retailing stores could be as high as 200 thousand NT dollars, about a half of annual personal income per capita in Taiwan area. In combination with consumption pattern characterized by mixed land uses, the high land values push operation of western fast-food chain-stores switch their major business to non-store retailing . In the research , our attempt is to formulate discrete location model to evaluate the aforementioned non-store retailer with the objective of maximizing profit. Site selection for Pizza delivery store is the case for empirical study. To assist a decision-maker to make decision, GIS is employed to manage data and display spatial result.To the proposed discrete location model, Lagrangian Relaxation with Subgradient Method and Genetic Algorithm(GA) are chosen to solve. The former can converge to optimal solution in any small cases; on the other hand, the latter can converge to optimal solution not in all selected small cases. Empirical penalty functions are tested to simulate the constraints in the GA formulation and assist the model to approach optimality. However, the Lagrangian Relaxation with Subgradient Method converges very slowly in case that total number of facilities increase. GA, on the contrary, converges satisfactorily.
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Guo, Jessica Yinghchieh. "Addressing spatial complexities in residential location choice models." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1320.
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Wu, Jeng-De, and 吳政德. "Consumer Choice of Location-based Mobile Commerce Adoption." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82777913308795141315.
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碩士元智大學
資訊管理研究所
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With the emergence of mobile lifestyle, we are facing are the changes of lifestyle and continuing moving patterns. These factors bring about mobility in our life. How does the business react to the derived needs from the mobile lifestyle? It is no longer able to forecast the pattern of people when the connection of target and its lifestyle is missing. People can not be regarded as a simple and no-different group. It is critical to gather suitable information of consumer to make up the missing part. That is the reason that location-based mobile commerce will influence greatly. It is extremely personalized to design the location-based mobile commerce applications and services. Because we can not guess what the consumer really need and what they urgently want only from the point of technology, it should be from the consumer side. This study will discuss the consumer choice from the consumer. This study surveys the consumer choice of location-based mobile commerce. We sort these applications and service by consumer choice. It can be found that the most potentially interesting applications and services to consumer. We include the same research data in Hong Kong to compare the difference of consumer choices in different areas. It is approximately similar for consumer choice. We also include the human need hierarchy to interpret the appearance of consumer choice of location-based mobile commerce.
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Chin-Sheng, Chen, and 陳金盛. "Location Choice and Optimal Zoning under Cournot Competition." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/jbcqt8.
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碩士國立臺北大學
經濟學系
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This research introduces a symmetric zoning regulation ﹣that prohibits firms from locating to the middle interval in a linear city ﹣into a location model with Cournot competition to investigate the behavior of firms' location choice. It is shown that Cournot duopoly firms will not agglomerate at the same location, but choose to disperse and then locate separately at the endpoints of the zoning area. Furthermore, without considering any externality, when the reservation price is sufficiently low, governments still can employ a zoning regulation to prevent duopoly firms from locating too close so that improving the social welfare. The efficacy of a zoning regulation, however, is insignificant in the case of three firms. Finally, if an amenity effect is involved in the model, then the zoning regulation is clearly helpful to enhance social welfare regardless of whether the market structure is a duopoly or a triopoly.
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Yang, Chih-Hao, and 楊之昊. "Cournot Competition, Location Choice, And Restricted Social Welfare." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/02656668531595420087.
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碩士東吳大學
經濟學系
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This paper aims to analyze a Barbell model in which firms first choose their locations and then produce and sell under Cournot competition, and study the relationship between social welfare and the equilibrium locations and productions. First we find that the firms’ equilibrium locations are influenced by the sizes of markets, and find the equilibrium number of firms in both markets. Second, we study the firms’ optimal locations under the assumption that firm’s location choices are limited by a social planner. We find the increase in social welfare mainly comes the part of firms’ profit, rather than the part of consumers’ surplus. Finally, we discuss the restriction conditions for transportation cost and firms’ cross-selling.
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Guo, Jessica Yinghchieh Bhat Chandra R. "Addressing spatial complexities in residential location choice models." 2004. http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/1320/guoj02612.pdf.
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Wu, Wenhsuan, and 吳玟萱. "Foreign Direct Investment,Cultural Distance And Location Choice." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58396042437025550759.
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碩士靜宜大學
國際企業學系
100
With the continuing development of modern technology and con-venient transportations, the distance between countries is shrinking which make the world become a global village. In addition, the economic and trading situation in many countries are getting open, therefore, many enterprises have been relocated or based in different countries in order to expand the business, obtain more resources and promote international business operation. Different regions in different countries have their own culture background and ways to doing thing. Therefore, it is really important for enterprises on how to choose the right place for their investment and business expansion. This study is to explore some essential factors for overseas investment location. According to the previous investment or trading experience, is it worth to do the further business expansion in some country? Moreover, will the differences of cultures and distances between countries affect enterprises’ thoughts? My thesis adopts Qualitative Analysis. I interviewed the supervisors of three different small and medium enterprises and asked their personal experiences and opinions about the overseas investment. My brief three conclusions from the interviews are their previous investment experience and knowledge is considered a plus to invest in the same country. A similar culture does not have a significant consideration for enterprises choosing the investing locations. Also, the distance between the parent company and the overseas investing country does not directly affect to the enterprises.
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謝曜竹. "Exploring the Warehousing Location Choice of Logistics Operators." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76975048993496704872.
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Bishop, Kelly Catherine. "Location Choice and the Value of Spatially Delineated Amenities." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/656.
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In the first chapter of this dissertation, I outline a hedonic equilibrium model that explicitly controls for moving costs and forward-looking behavior. Hedonic equilibrium models allow researchers to recover willingness to pay for spatially delineated amenities by using the notion that individuals "vote with their feet." However, the hedonic literature and, more recently, the estimable Tiebout sorting model literature, has largely ignored both the costs associated with migration (financial and psychological), as well as the forward-looking behavior that individuals exercise in making location decisions. Each of these omissions could lead to biased estimates of willingness to pay. Building upon dynamic migration models from the labor literature, I estimate a fully dynamic model of individual migration at the national level. By employing a two-step estimation routine, I avoid the computational burden associated with the full recursive solution and can then include a richly-specified, realistic state space. With this model, I am able to perform non-market valuation exercises and learn about the spatial determinants of labor market outcomes in a dynamic setting. Including dynamics has a significant positive impact on the estimates of willingness to pay for air quality. In addition, I find that location-specific amenity values can explain important trends in observed migration patterns in the United States.
The second chapter of this dissertation describes a model which estimates willingness to pay for air quality using property value hedonics techniques. Since Rosen's seminal 1974 paper, property value hedonics has become commonplace in the non-market valuation of environmental amenities, despite a number of well-known methodological problems. In particular, recovery of the marginal willingness to pay function suffers from important endogeneity biases that are difficult to correct with instrumental variables procedures [Epple (1987)]. Bajari and Benkard (2005) propose a "preference inversion" procedure for recovering heterogeneous measures of marginal willingness to pay that avoids these problems. However, using cross-sectional data, their approach imposes unrealistic constraints on the elasticity of marginal willingness to pay. Following Bajari and Benkard's suggestion, I show how data describing repeat purchase decisions by individual home buyers can be used to relax these constraints. Using data on ozone pollution in the Bay Area of California, I find that endogeneity bias and flexibility in the shape of the marginal willingness to pay function are both important.
Finally, in the third chapter of this dissertation, I combine the insights of the Bajari-Benkard inversion approach employed in second chapter with more standard estimation techniques (i.e., Rosen (1974)) to arrive at a new hedonic methodology that allows for flexible and heterogeneous preferences while avoiding the endogeneity problems that plague the traditional Rosen two-stage model. Implementing this estimator using the Bay Area ozone data, I again find evidence of considerable heterogeneity and of endogeneity bias. In particular, I find that a one unit deterioration in air quality (measured in days in which ozone levels exceed the state standards) raises marginal willingness to pay by $145.18 per year. The canonical two-stage Rosen model finds, counter-intuitively, that this same change would reduce marginal willingness to pay by $94.24.
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Weng, Tzu-ying, and 翁梓英. "Essays on Intra-Industry Trade and Firm’s Location Choice." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/n3w9cv.
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Chiang, Wan Ying, and 江宛瑛. "The Establishment of Residents'' Choice Indicators for Residential Location." Thesis, 1994. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14012173479230050946.
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林庭予. "The Application of Multiple Choice Programming on Location Selection." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70660730184586300060.
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碩士國立臺北科技大學
商業自動化與管理研究所
92
Location selection is the key factor of business operating for that an organization should consider from the outside factors including the overall environment, supply chain to the inner factors such as the degree of department cooperation. Through these factors we can evaluate those candidates and at the end, decide a competitive, effective, and efficient location successfully. Here I summarized the facilities with the characteristics of special-ordered sets and found out the different weights apart. In calculating the shortest distance for each candidates, I used factor rating, Floyd’s algorithm, and median weight algorithm to calculate the shortest distance, and then put the calculated outcome into the multiple choice programming model to conduct a fine and good special-ordered sets mathematic model. In the end of the paper, I used a practical example to exercise the model with the lowest cost as the object, and discussed the meaning then put the conclusion, hoping to offer contribution for those going to make decision of location selection.
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Lin, Ming-Ta, and 林明達. "The Location Choice of Taiwanese Footwear Industry in Vietnam." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83021456442685032765.
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碩士國立暨南國際大學
東南亞研究所
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The changes in Taiwan’s macroeconomic environment have forced Taiwan footwear manufacturers to invest abroad since the end of the 1980s. Many of them invested in Vietnam since Doi Moi (or market liberation) begun in 1986, especially after “The Law of Foreign Investment” effectively implemented in early 1990s. Vietnam has become the second largest country where Taiwan footwear firms have foreign direct investment. This study intends to investigate the factors attracting Taiwan footwear enterprises to invest in Vietnam. The data set, consisting of 76 Taiwan footwear subsidiaries in Vietnam, shows that the most important factor motivating Taiwan footwear firms to conduct FDI in Vietnam is “utilizing cheap labor” and followed by “capitalizing on tax incentives.” We then employ the Logit model to analyze what factors significantly influence firms’ decisions to establish subsidiaries in North or South Vietnam. The empirical results indicate that “firm size,” “R&D activities,” “following major clients,” “local industry network,” and “accessing cheap land” are significant factors to influence Taiwan footwear firms’ location choices between North and South Vietnam.
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Hung, Chang Yi, and 張義宏. "Key Factors Analysis on Food Suppliers Operation Location Choice." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37634927972759742532.
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碩士開南大學
觀光運輸學院碩士在職專班
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This is the study based on Food Company in Taiwan whose distribution location is being the key factor. Since the expanding of electronic business and competition, supplying chain is getting shorter from producer to end user. Company who serves more selection but small quantity and speed delivery, has to shorten their supplying chain. Hence, it is a key factor for company who should improve supplying chain progress and decrease handling cost. In order to reduce the cost in transportation, handling and storage but increase market competition, companies started to set capital warehouse. However, under the pressure of territory and energy shortage, the key factor goes for location of capital warehouse. When selecting the location of capital warehouse, there are many criteria, some criteria could be quantification, such as the cost of warehouse hardware. Some criteria could be qualification, such as urban planning. Different conclusion will be made when facing different decision maker. It is not easy to judge when selection. Even more, most of the decisions were made by some people’s experience. However, the district criteria will be ignoring. Therefore, this is the study focusing on factors considering when selecting the location of warehouse. The Consistent fuzzy preference relations (CFPR) were applied when judging the importance of warehouse selecting. Also, Entropy was applied to clarify the suspension degree. At last, in order to specify KPI of different option when selecting warehouse location, Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) was applied to prove the analysis.
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Gomes, Joana Silva. "Location choice dilemma : the internationalization of technology-based companies." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/15389.
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Zaask is a Portuguese technology-based company (TBC) created in 2012, May. Its mission is to develop and promote an online marketplace for services and to be able to effectively match the clients’ demands with those of services providers.
With growing and encouraging prospects in the domestic market and with promising expected returns from scale economies, inherent to TBCs, the company is planning to start its internationalization process. This work constitutes an attempt to address the three-step critical decision - why?, where? and how? – confronted by any company at the beginning of the process.
The forthcoming main question for Zaask is related to the foreign market choice. This case study provides an overview of the company and tries to address the Zaask’s dilemma from a global perspective. In this context, this thesis will also provide support to a teaching case study within the subject of International Strategy. Therefore, this case study will conduct a strategic analysis of the Zaask’s internationalization strategy, identifying the relevant location choices variables, opportunities and threats of possible markets, among others.A Zaask é uma empresa Portuguesa de base tecnológica criada em Maio de 2012 com o objectivo de desenvolver e promover um mercado online de serviços, possibilitando um encontro eficiente entre a procura e a oferta. As perspectivas de crescimento promissoras no mercado doméstico, bem como o retorno esperado das economias de escala (inerentes a empresas de base tecnológica) fazem com que a empresa tencione expandir a sua actividade a nível internacional. Esta dissertação constitui uma tentativa de analisar os três passos decisivos – porquê?, onde? e como? – com que qualquer empresa se debate no início do seu processo de internacionalização. As principais questões abordadas estão relacionadas com a escolha de mercado por parte da Zaask. Este caso de estudo oferece uma visão geral sobre a empresa e constitui uma tentativa de apoiar a sua decisão em termos de escolha de mercado. Esta dissertação poderá também ser utilizada como suporte à elaboração de estudos de caso sobre o tema de Estratégia Internacional. É efectuada uma análise estratégica do processo de internacionalização da empresa, onde serão identificadas as principais variáveis que poderão influenciar esta decisão, bem como as principais oportunidades e ameaças presentes em cada mercado potencial.
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Teterevleva, Polina. "Choice of Location for Internationalization Strategy for Services SMEs." Master's thesis, 2014. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/75499.
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Teterevleva, Polina. "Choice of Location for Internationalization Strategy for Services SMEs." Dissertação, 2014. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/75499.
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Yang, Hsu Jen, and 楊旭仁. "The Effect of Location Advantages in China on Sequent Location Choice Behavior—Evidence from Taiwan MNEs." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21559419562963895739.
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碩士國立暨南國際大學
國際企業學系
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Abstract When MNEs decide on an investment location, there are many factors that influence the decision, including location factors and different industry attributes. In addition, different industries face different customer behavior features. These problems commonly exist in direct investment. However, past studies have used questionnaires to discuss the location choice behavior of MNEs, while this study tries to classify investment cases into four industry groups from high to low accessibility regarding the end market. In order to discuss the interference effect of location factor influence among the four industry groups, an ordered logistic regression with four interactive variances is set. The main investigation concerns the order location of MNEs investing in China and how they are influenced by location factors; therefore, an ordered logistic regression is used to analyze data. The data (2406 cases), named List of MNEs Investing inChina, was collected by the Investment Commission from 1991 to 2006. The results of this analysis of the order location in China influenced by location factors can help MNEs understand location advantage influence in terms of investing in different locations in China. In other words, in terms of the interference effect analysis of different industry attributes with regards to location factors, the results can help MNEs consider their owner advantages pertaining to location advantages, and clearly show MNEs’ owner advantages and strategy goals. Key words: Location Behavior、Sequent Investment、Ordered Logistic Regression