H D Watts
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1474150 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | H D Watts |
| NOMBRES | H D |
| APELLIDO | Watts |
| FIRMA | WATTS H D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 130 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1966 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Multinational Corporations and the Third World
List of Tables and Figures. Preface. Introduction C J Dixon, D Drakakis-Smith and H D Watts. 1. The Multinationals: Spearhead or Spectre? F E I Hamilton. 2. Multinationals and the Exploitation of Non-Renewable Resources G Manners. 3. Multinationals and Restructuring in Latin America S M Cunningham. 4. Arming the Third World: The Role of the Multinational Corporation S W Williams. 5. The new International Division of Labour and American Semiconduc…
Evolutionary agglomeration theory
According to Marshall's agglomeration theory, Krugman's New Economic Geography models, and Porter's cluster policies, firms should receive increasing returns from a trinity of agglomeration economies: a local pool of skilled labour, local supplier linkages, and local knowledge spillovers. Recent evolutionary theories suggest that whether agglomeration economies generate increasing returns or diminishing returns depends on time, and especially the…
Plant Closures by Multi-locational Firms
WATTS H. D. and KIRKHAM J. D. (1999) Plant closures by multi-locational firms: a comparative perspective, Reg. Studies 33, 413-424. Multi-locational firms often close a plant undertaking a particular activity and retain one or more plants undertaking that activity elsewhere within the corporate system. By comparing the closed plant with a plant that was retained it is possible to identify the distinctive characteristics of plants selected for clo…
Organizations, recruitment and the local labour market
New Process Technology and the Regeneration of the Manufacturing Sector of an Urban Economy
Local economic development strategies for the manufacturing sectors of urban areas have tended to focus on either inward investment or the stimulation of new firms. This paper argues more attention should be focused upon existing large manufacturing operations. The introduction of new process technologies into existing establishments may enhance the competitiveness of an urban economy. Using data from a new survey of the larger metal-using establ…
Production Site R&d in a Mature Industrial Region
A mature industrial region is often characterised by a lack of free‐standing R&D units. This article shows that the absence of free‐standing R&D units is paralleled by limited R&D activities within production sites. Most plants outsource some R&D activities, and the most frequently cited suppliers of R&D are consultants together with local colleges and universities. Externally‐owned plants are more likely to employ full‐time research staff and to…
Policy Review Section
In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Harvey Armstrong of the Management School, Lancaster University, examines the issue of subsidiarity in relation to the application of European Community Regional Policy in Britain. In the second Article John Doling of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Birmingham reviews the development of British housing policy in the past decade. In the third Article Hoe Lim of the Faculty …
Local perspectives on new process technology and employment
This article examines the introduction of new process technology into a local labour market in the late 1980s and relates variations in adoption rates to establishment characteristics. The authors highlight the contrasts in the employment outcomes and training requirements in adopting and non‐adopting establishments and find that ‘adopters' expect more changes in employment, more skills shortages and have a greater awareness of future training ne…
Plant Closures in Urban Areas
This paper focuses upon large plant closures by multi-locational firms in urban areas. It argues that it is useful to disaggregate such closures into two categories: cessation closures and selective closures. This classification is applied to closures in Sheffield from 1979 to 1989 and a further distinction is drawn between inter-urban selective closures and intra-urban selective closures. The local environmental factors which had most effect on …
Local Environments and Plant Closures by Multi-locational Firms
STAFFORD H. A. and WATTS H. D. (1991) Local environments and plant closures by multi-locational firms: a cross-cultural analysis, Reg. Studies 25, 427–438. This paper provides a comparison of continuing and closing plants in multi-locational firms in the US and UK in an attempt to identify local environment effects on plant closure decisions. Closed plants in two metropolitan areas (Cincinnati, USA, and Sheffield, UK) are compared with plants els…
Plant Closures, Multilocational Firms, and the Urban Economy
In the United Kingdom, many jobs have been lost through plant closures over the last decade, and many of these have arisen from plant closures implemented in urban areas by multilocational firms. In this paper, a conceptual framework for analysing plant closures by multilocational firms is outlined and this is used to interpret data relating to Sheffield, England. Over the last decade the city experienced the closure of seventy-seven large plants…
Abandoned Products, Abandoned Places
Industrial Location
Multinational Corporations and the Third World
Plant Closure and the Multiplant Firm
The Geography of Enterprise
Some relationships between manufacturing activity and the urban system
Conflict and collusion in the British sugar industry, 1924 to 1928
The Location of European Direct Investment in the United Kingdom
Large Firms, Multinationals, and Regional Development
The paper examines the contention that large firms and multinationals have used their bargaining power to create employment patterns that may be contrary to regional policy objectives. Previously unpublished tabulations prepared by the Business Statistics Office illustrate the regional distribution of the employment of the UK's thirteen largest employers in the manufacturing sector and the distribution of employment controlled by overseas firms b…
The Spatial Evolution of an Industry
We reiterate the limitations we specified in our original paper, and indicate that we do not modify our views in any substantial way. WE were pleased to learn that this topic has attracted a very careful and critical reading of our paper (White and Watts, 1977a). Our general reaction to the comment is that it does not lead us to modify our views in any substantial way. Harrison develops many of the limitations we drew attention to ourselves and w…
Inter-organisational relations and the location of industry
Watts H. D. (1978) Inter-organisational relations and the location of industry, Reg. Studies 12, 215–225. Inter-action between enterprises operating in an oligopolistic setting is shown to affect the spatial pattern of their plants. The spatial outcome of the inter-action process among small groups of firms reflects their roles and behaviour. ‘Leader’ and ‘satellite’ roles are discussed in relation to three kinds of behaviour; collusive, competit…
Market Areas Aid Spatial Rationalization
The Spatial Evolution of an Industry
An attempt is made to test some ideas concerning the tendency for an industry to move towards economically rational patterns as it evolves. These ideas originated from assertions made by Hoover, Tiebout, Pred and Smith. Data were collected from a sample of broiler growing plants in the East Midlands. Individual and organizational decision makers are identified and analysis of the data shows that, over a period of time, plants begin to use nearer …
Spatial rationalisation in multi-plant enterprises
The Geography of Enterprise
Spatial rationalisation in multi-plant enterprises
Evolutionary agglomeration theory
According to Marshall's agglomeration theory, Krugman's New Economic Geography models, and Porter's cluster policies, firms should receive increasing returns from a trinity of agglomeration economies: a local pool of skilled labour, local supplier linkages, and local knowledge spillovers. Recent evolutionary theories suggest that whether agglomeration economies generate increasing returns or diminishing returns depends on time, and especially the…
Plant Closure and the Multiplant Firm
Large Firms, Multinationals, and Regional Development
The paper examines the contention that large firms and multinationals have used their bargaining power to create employment patterns that may be contrary to regional policy objectives. Previously unpublished tabulations prepared by the Business Statistics Office illustrate the regional distribution of the employment of the UK's thirteen largest employers in the manufacturing sector and the distribution of employment controlled by overseas firms b…
Inter-organisational relations and the location of industry
Watts H. D. (1978) Inter-organisational relations and the location of industry, Reg. Studies 12, 215–225. Inter-action between enterprises operating in an oligopolistic setting is shown to affect the spatial pattern of their plants. The spatial outcome of the inter-action process among small groups of firms reflects their roles and behaviour. ‘Leader’ and ‘satellite’ roles are discussed in relation to three kinds of behaviour; collusive, competit…
The Location of the Beet-Sugar Industry in England and Wales, 1912-36
The beet-sugar industry of England and Wales was established between 1912 and 1928. A general examina- tion of its locational pattern shows its links with the sugar-beet growing area, but a more detailed analysis reveals significant anomalies. Marginal factories are identified, and the reasons for their marginal locations are seen to be the policies of the companies responsible for developing the industry. The three principal companies (or groups…
Plant Closures, Multilocational Firms, and the Urban Economy
In the United Kingdom, many jobs have been lost through plant closures over the last decade, and many of these have arisen from plant closures implemented in urban areas by multilocational firms. In this paper, a conceptual framework for analysing plant closures by multilocational firms is outlined and this is used to interpret data relating to Sheffield, England. Over the last decade the city experienced the closure of seventy-seven large plants…
Multinational Corporations and the Third World
List of Tables and Figures. Preface. Introduction C J Dixon, D Drakakis-Smith and H D Watts. 1. The Multinationals: Spearhead or Spectre? F E I Hamilton. 2. Multinationals and the Exploitation of Non-Renewable Resources G Manners. 3. Multinationals and Restructuring in Latin America S M Cunningham. 4. Arming the Third World: The Role of the Multinational Corporation S W Williams. 5. The new International Division of Labour and American Semiconduc…
The Spatial Evolution of an Industry
An attempt is made to test some ideas concerning the tendency for an industry to move towards economically rational patterns as it evolves. These ideas originated from assertions made by Hoover, Tiebout, Pred and Smith. Data were collected from a sample of broiler growing plants in the East Midlands. Individual and organizational decision makers are identified and analysis of the data shows that, over a period of time, plants begin to use nearer …
Abandoned Products, Abandoned Places
The Location of European Direct Investment in the United Kingdom
Market Areas Aid Spatial Rationalization
Plant Closures by Multi-locational Firms
WATTS H. D. and KIRKHAM J. D. (1999) Plant closures by multi-locational firms: a comparative perspective, Reg. Studies 33, 413-424. Multi-locational firms often close a plant undertaking a particular activity and retain one or more plants undertaking that activity elsewhere within the corporate system. By comparing the closed plant with a plant that was retained it is possible to identify the distinctive characteristics of plants selected for clo…
Policy Review Section
In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Harvey Armstrong of the Management School, Lancaster University, examines the issue of subsidiarity in relation to the application of European Community Regional Policy in Britain. In the second Article John Doling of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Birmingham reviews the development of British housing policy in the past decade. In the third Article Hoe Lim of the Faculty …
Plant Closures in Urban Areas
This paper focuses upon large plant closures by multi-locational firms in urban areas. It argues that it is useful to disaggregate such closures into two categories: cessation closures and selective closures. This classification is applied to closures in Sheffield from 1979 to 1989 and a further distinction is drawn between inter-urban selective closures and intra-urban selective closures. The local environmental factors which had most effect on …
Local Environments and Plant Closures by Multi-locational Firms
STAFFORD H. A. and WATTS H. D. (1991) Local environments and plant closures by multi-locational firms: a cross-cultural analysis, Reg. Studies 25, 427–438. This paper provides a comparison of continuing and closing plants in multi-locational firms in the US and UK in an attempt to identify local environment effects on plant closure decisions. Closed plants in two metropolitan areas (Cincinnati, USA, and Sheffield, UK) are compared with plants els…
Conflict and collusion in the British sugar industry, 1924 to 1928
Production Site R&d in a Mature Industrial Region
A mature industrial region is often characterised by a lack of free‐standing R&D units. This article shows that the absence of free‐standing R&D units is paralleled by limited R&D activities within production sites. Most plants outsource some R&D activities, and the most frequently cited suppliers of R&D are consultants together with local colleges and universities. Externally‐owned plants are more likely to employ full‐time research staff and to…
The Spatial Evolution of an Industry
We reiterate the limitations we specified in our original paper, and indicate that we do not modify our views in any substantial way. WE were pleased to learn that this topic has attracted a very careful and critical reading of our paper (White and Watts, 1977a). Our general reaction to the comment is that it does not lead us to modify our views in any substantial way. Harrison develops many of the limitations we drew attention to ourselves and w…
The Character and Origin of Industry in a Rural Area—a Case Study of East Yorkshire 1
The Character and Origin of Industry in a Rural Area—a Case Study of East Yorkshire 1
Agricultural Industries
The Inland Waterways of the United Kingdom in the 1960s
The Board's duties, as defined by the Transport Act of 1962, were to manage the waterways with due regard to efficiency, economy, and safety of operation, and to review the problem of waterways which were no longer self-supporting. The results of this review were published in an interim report The Future of the Waterways (1964),2 and in a final report The Facts About the Waterways (1965).3 These two reports provide the data from which a detailed …
The Location of Aluminium Reduction Plant in the United Kingdom
The Location of the Beet-Sugar Industry in England and Wales, 1912-36
The beet-sugar industry of England and Wales was established between 1912 and 1928. A general examina- tion of its locational pattern shows its links with the sugar-beet growing area, but a more detailed analysis reveals significant anomalies. Marginal factories are identified, and the reasons for their marginal locations are seen to be the policies of the companies responsible for developing the industry. The three principal companies (or groups…
Spatial rationalisation in multi-plant enterprises
Market Areas Aid Spatial Rationalization
The Spatial Evolution of an Industry
An attempt is made to test some ideas concerning the tendency for an industry to move towards economically rational patterns as it evolves. These ideas originated from assertions made by Hoover, Tiebout, Pred and Smith. Data were collected from a sample of broiler growing plants in the East Midlands. Individual and organizational decision makers are identified and analysis of the data shows that, over a period of time, plants begin to use nearer …
The Spatial Evolution of an Industry
We reiterate the limitations we specified in our original paper, and indicate that we do not modify our views in any substantial way. WE were pleased to learn that this topic has attracted a very careful and critical reading of our paper (White and Watts, 1977a). Our general reaction to the comment is that it does not lead us to modify our views in any substantial way. Harrison develops many of the limitations we drew attention to ourselves and w…
Inter-organisational relations and the location of industry
Watts H. D. (1978) Inter-organisational relations and the location of industry, Reg. Studies 12, 215–225. Inter-action between enterprises operating in an oligopolistic setting is shown to affect the spatial pattern of their plants. The spatial outcome of the inter-action process among small groups of firms reflects their roles and behaviour. ‘Leader’ and ‘satellite’ roles are discussed in relation to three kinds of behaviour; collusive, competit…
Large Firms, Multinationals, and Regional Development
The paper examines the contention that large firms and multinationals have used their bargaining power to create employment patterns that may be contrary to regional policy objectives. Previously unpublished tabulations prepared by the Business Statistics Office illustrate the regional distribution of the employment of the UK's thirteen largest employers in the manufacturing sector and the distribution of employment controlled by overseas firms b…
Conflict and collusion in the British sugar industry, 1924 to 1928
The Location of European Direct Investment in the United Kingdom
The Geography of Enterprise
Some relationships between manufacturing activity and the urban system
Plant Closure and the Multiplant Firm
Multinational Corporations and the Third World
Industrial Location
Abandoned Products, Abandoned Places
Plant Closures in Urban Areas
This paper focuses upon large plant closures by multi-locational firms in urban areas. It argues that it is useful to disaggregate such closures into two categories: cessation closures and selective closures. This classification is applied to closures in Sheffield from 1979 to 1989 and a further distinction is drawn between inter-urban selective closures and intra-urban selective closures. The local environmental factors which had most effect on …
Local Environments and Plant Closures by Multi-locational Firms
STAFFORD H. A. and WATTS H. D. (1991) Local environments and plant closures by multi-locational firms: a cross-cultural analysis, Reg. Studies 25, 427–438. This paper provides a comparison of continuing and closing plants in multi-locational firms in the US and UK in an attempt to identify local environment effects on plant closure decisions. Closed plants in two metropolitan areas (Cincinnati, USA, and Sheffield, UK) are compared with plants els…
Plant Closures, Multilocational Firms, and the Urban Economy
In the United Kingdom, many jobs have been lost through plant closures over the last decade, and many of these have arisen from plant closures implemented in urban areas by multilocational firms. In this paper, a conceptual framework for analysing plant closures by multilocational firms is outlined and this is used to interpret data relating to Sheffield, England. Over the last decade the city experienced the closure of seventy-seven large plants…
Local perspectives on new process technology and employment
This article examines the introduction of new process technology into a local labour market in the late 1980s and relates variations in adoption rates to establishment characteristics. The authors highlight the contrasts in the employment outcomes and training requirements in adopting and non‐adopting establishments and find that ‘adopters' expect more changes in employment, more skills shortages and have a greater awareness of future training ne…
Policy Review Section
In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Harvey Armstrong of the Management School, Lancaster University, examines the issue of subsidiarity in relation to the application of European Community Regional Policy in Britain. In the second Article John Doling of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Birmingham reviews the development of British housing policy in the past decade. In the third Article Hoe Lim of the Faculty …
Organizations, recruitment and the local labour market
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