RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF PLANT LOCATION FACTORS: A CROSS NATIONAL COMPARISON BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA
使用逻辑回归分析，比较新加坡和马来西亚的工厂选址决策，识别影响企业选择两国的关键战略因素，对供应链管理和国际运营决策有参考价值。
The strategic implications of plant location in the global context of supply chain management have received limited attention in the literature. Both quantitative factors (transport costs, exchange rates, labor rates, and taxes) and qualitative factors (infrastructure, availability of skilled labor) have been identified as being important in making plant location decisions. Few studies have offered prescriptive models that isolate the relative influence of strategic factors in locating in one country as opposed to another. In this paper, logistic regression analysis is used to predict which strategic location factors are significant for firms locating in Singapore in comparison to firms that locate in Malaysia.