THE FILTERING DOWN PROCESS IN GEORGIA: THE THIRD STAGE IN THE PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE

Branch plants have been a major factor in the filtering down process in Georgia. Industrial movement down the urban hierarchy seems in general to describe filtering down prior to about 1960, but metropolitan to nonmetropolitan filtering down has been more characteristic of the past twenty years. High versus low technology industries are differently involved in the filtering down process, with high technology industries dominating new branch plant location in nonmetropolitan areas.