企业地理研究综述

西方发达国家自本世纪60年代以来,企业地理研究的理论、方法和实践已有了很大进展。为开展我国企业地理研究,本文主要论述了企业地理研究的产生背景及其发展历程、主要领域以及研究动向,并认为在我国开展企业地理研究具有广阔的发展前景和深远的理论与实际意义。

A REVIEW OF THE GEOGRAPHY OF ENTERPRISE

The geography of enterprise which is a relatively new approach in industrial geography, focuses first on enterprises themselves and only second on their spatial effects, yet several studies have already indicate its Value. Since McNee's pioneering work over three decades ago, the idea and practicei of a geography of enterprise has gathered momentum.The paper which examines the major theoretical devslopments of the geography of enterprise is arranged around four main facts.First, five approaches within the geography of enterprise can be considered, and the context in which enterprises operate is in troduced.This is followed by an examination of main development stages of geography of enter prise. The third section analyses the major research areas of the geography of enterprise with an emphasis on the spatial evolution of enterprises and on linkages of enterprise some new research tendencies make up the fourth section.Based on reviewing and critically analyzing the major developments of geography oi enterprise in the West, many new theoretical and practical problems for geography of enterprise in China are posed.