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LIST OF TABLES
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Table 2.1 Selected Location Decision Making Literature 22
Table 3.1 Comparisons of three Important Paradigms used in
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the Social and Behavioural Sciences
Table 3.2 Distinctions of Qualitative and Quantitative
Approaches 72
to MeasurementTable 4.1a The Importance of Location Factors to
Location Decision 85
Making of Different Industry
Table 4.1b The Importance of Location Factors to Location
Decision 87
Making of Different Industry
Table 4.2 Variables to be examined in the Study 100
Table 5.1 Business Activities Involvement of Firms 110
Table 5.2 Markets Distributions of Firms 110
Table 5.3 Top Ten most Important Location Factors of Key
Industries 113
Table 5.4 Top Ten most Important Location Factors of Local,
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Interstate and Overseas Firms
Table 5.5 Top Ten most Important Location Factors to Firms with
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Different Main Business Activities
Table 5.6 Location Information Sources of Key Industries 118
Table 5.7 Important Information Sources for Different Size of
Firms 120
Table 5.8 Important Information Sources for Local, Interstate
and 120
Overseas firms
Table 5.9 Top Five Personnel involved in the Location 123
Decision-Making Process
Table 5.10 Top Five Personnel involved in Location
Decision-Making 124
Process of Different Size of Firms
Table 5.11 Top Five Personnel involved in Location Decision
Making 125
Process of Local, Interstate and Overseas Firms
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Table 6.1 Relative Important Location Factors of Key Industries
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Table 6.2 Relative Important Location Factors of the Local,
Interstate 138
and Overseas Firms
Table 6.3 Relative Important Location Factors to Firms with
Different 139Main Business Activities
Table 6.4 Relative Important Information Sources of Key
Industries 140
Table 6.5 Relative Important Information Sources to Firms With
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Respect to Their Size and Geography of Headquarters
Table 6.6 Top Five Personnel Involved in Location Decision
Making 141
Process of Key Industries
Table 6.7 Top Five Personnel Involved in the Decision Process
with 142
Respect to Their Size of the Firm and Headquarters Location
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LIST OF FIGURES
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Figure 1.1 Chapter 1 Overview 1
Figure 1.2 Justification for the Research 6
Figure 1.3 Structure of the Study 12
Figure 2.1 Chapter 2 Overview 17
Figure 2.2 Location Decision Major Paradigms 22
Figure 2.3 The Behavioural Matrix 32Figure 2.4 Theoretical Model
of Location Decision Process 46
Figure 3.1 Chapter 3 Overview 53
Figure 3.2 Overview of the Research Approach 61
Figure 4.1 Chapter 4 Overview 76
Figure 5.1 Chapter 5 Overview 103
Figure 6.1 Chapter 6 Overview 129
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