Effects of Geographical Scale on Location Decisions in Manufacturing: The Atlanta Example
基于亚特兰大都市区问卷数据，研究发现制造业企业的区位决策因搜索尺度（国家、区域或地方）不同而呈现差异，国家尺度企业规模更大、成立更晚、多为分厂，且原料来源和市场范围更广。
Manufacturing plants have different locational requirements and characteristics based on whether their locational decision primarily involved a spatial search at the national, regional, or local level. The analysis is derived from questionnaire data for the fifteen-county Atlanta, Georgia, metropolitan area. Nationally oriented plants are larger, more recently established, and more likely to be branch plants, and are more strongly represented in types of manufacturing in which the South has recognized locational advantages. Plants locating as a result of national searches obtain materials from a greater distance and serve wider markets.