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Corporate Organization and the Spatial Marketing of Flour in Canada

出版	University of Alberta, 1971
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bZDZ0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This work attempts to identify, within a specific study context, effects of industrial corporate organization on commodity flow patterns. The activity studied is the Canadian flour milling industry, and attention is focused on the significance of multi-plant milling firm organization to the explanation of flour distribution patterns# A description is presented of the general geographic character of flows of wheat to flour mills and of flows of flour to markets, and a number of ways outlined in which tho multi-mill firm may differ from the single mill firm in terms of contribution to the overall pattern of flour movements. An application of linear programming is then made to the problem of deriving least cost flour shipment patterns for selected mill locations in western Canada. Solutions are obtained for two different condi- ' tions of corporate mill ownership. In the first instance, the assumption is made that all the mills are under single plant firm ownership, while in the second it is assumed that actual ownership conditions prevail. All the mill3 selected are owned by multi-mill firms, and the optimal flow patterns for each of the companies are summed to permit comparison with the optimal shipment pattern derived for the hypothetical situation of independently owned mills. Conclusions are then drawn as to the apparent utility of continuing research into the spatial ramifica tions of corporate organization.