Abstract
The organization of production in multiplant firms and the location of their top management has important repercussions for Israel's national policy of industrial dispersal. This paper presents an empirical analysis of: the location pattern of the headquarters of the 124 largest industrial companies in Israel: the location pattern of head offices controlling the manufacturing activity in Israel's development towns; and the spatial organization of Israel's six largest industrial enterprises. Our analysis shows that control units of large industrial firms in Israel tend to be concentrated in central regions, primarily in the Tel-Aviv metropolis. The two factors found to be most clearly related to the extent of external control of industry in development towns are the plant size distribution and its distance from the nearest metropolitan area. The most remarkable conclusion drawn from the analysis of specific companies is the relatively small contribution to employment in development regions by the government military-associated industrial companies. -from Authors
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-19 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Geography Research Forum |
| Volume | 10 |
| State | Published - 1990 |
