Abstract
Recent reorganization of the US iron and steel industry provides a useful setting for an analysis of the relationship between industrial location and institutional forms. Regression analysis shows that institutional shifts in the organization of production dominated geographical shifts in employment and product value as integrated maxi-mills sought to raise productivity. Maxi-mills are concentrating investment and production in the Midwest states as their joint ventures with Japanese steel firms specialize in the mass production of galvanized sheets for the automoboile industry. Locational shifts also include the national spread of scrap-processing mini-mills and the rapid decline of raw-steel production in Pittsburgh as maxi-mills close furnaces and mills producing construction-grade bars and rods. -from Author
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Environment & Planning A |
Pages | 1339-1359 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Volume | 25 |
Edition | 9 |
State | Published - 1993 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences
- General Environmental Science