The State as Industrial Locator and District Builder: The Case of Changwon, South Korea
The State as Industrial Locator and District Builder: The Case of Changwon, South Korea
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国家作为工业定位者和地区建设者:韩国昌原市的案例
DOI:
10.2307/143534
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发表时间:
1993
影响因子:
7
通讯作者:
Sam Ock Park
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作者:
A. Markusen;Sam Ock Park
AbstractThe state may be a major shaper of industrial geography, especially in developing countries. Defense procurement offers an opportunity to study its role. In locating military industrial facilities, we hypothesize that the state is responding to different priorities than would civilian firms—strategic concerns (protection, secrecy), proximity to military bases, preferences of military personnel. The resulting spatial pattern may segregate military activity from other civilian sectors, with both positive (interregional equity, new seedbed activity) and negative (expensive replication of infrastructure, barriers to interregional interfirm cooperation) consequences. The state, as industrial district builder, may foster or discourage firm networking and synergy. Strategic and discretionary factors predominated in locational choice of a new military industrial complex built in the 1970s in Changwon, South Korea, which now accounts for about 70 percent of the country's military output. While contributing...