Japanese manufacturing greenfields : the provincial location decision

This paper examines why Japanese manufacturing greenfields locate in a particular Canadian province. We find that the location preference is based primarily on the present distribution of Japanese and Canadian firms. A secondary factor is market access, which includes the transportation costs of exporting the Canadian manufactured product to Japan. Other important factors are energy and labour costs. Having utilized quantitative methods to determine that the presence of Japanese and Canadian firms are the main reasons why new greenfields select the province they will locate in, we question the value of using tax dollars to attract investments to locations lacking substantial industry activity.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Business - MScB

Level thesis:degree_level

master's

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Business Administration

Grantor dc:publisher

University of British Columbia

Year dc:date

1993

Author dc:creator

• Brown, Iain A.

Statement dc:rights

• For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.

Language dc:language

eng

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1277

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/1277