THE INTERNATIONAL CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN THE 1980s* |
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| Authors: | Barney Warf |
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| Affiliation: | BARNEY WARF is Assistant Professor of Geography at Kent State University, Kent, OH 44240. His research interests include the international economy, political economy, social theory, and regional development. |
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| Abstract: | The construction industry has expanded to an increasingly global scale of production. International spatial and temporal dimensions of this sector, including changes in international market share, rising global competition, and its strong linkages to the petroleum industry are explored. Focus then shifts to the geographic patterns engendered within the United States by foreign construction contracts with US firms, including the spatial distributions of total and foreign contracts, an input-output analysis of the economic impacts of foreign contracts, and an examination of contracts of three specific foreign petroleum-related projects. A research agenda for future work concludes the study. |
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| Keywords: | construction internationalization |
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