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Plant Location

Plant Location is a strategic facility-location decision in operations and production management that determines the geographic region and specific site at which a manufacturing or industrial plant will be established so as to optimize long-term costs, market access, and operational efficiency relative to alternative locations.

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956

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514

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454

A Heuristic Algorithm and Simulation Approach to Relative Location of Facilities

Gordon C. Armour, Elwood S. Buffa · Management Science · 1963 · 739 citations

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The Location and Employment Choices of New Firms: An Econometric Model with Discrete and Continuous Endogenous Variables

Dennis W. Carlton · The Review of Economics and Statistics · 1983 · 715 citations

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The simple plant location problem: Survey and synthesis

Jakob Krarup, Peter Pruzan · European Journal of Operational Research · 1983 · 544 citations

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Environmental regulations and manufacturers' location choices: Evidence from the Census of Manufactures

Arik Levinson · Journal of Public Economics · 1996 · 543 citations

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The uncapacitated facility location problem

Gérard Cornuéjols, George L. Nemhauser, L.A. Wolsey · 1990 · 484 citations

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Authors

956

  1. PH
    Pierre Hansen

    Group for Research in Decision Analysis, Canada

    7 publications · 304 citations

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  2. CR
    Charles ReVelle

    Johns Hopkins University, United States

    7 publications · 318 citations

    7

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  3. EF
    Elena Fernández

    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

    7 publications · 385 citations

    7

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  4. ML
    Melvin L. Greenhut

    Mitchell Institute, United States

    6 publications · 195 citations

    6

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  5. RS
    R. Sridharan

    National Institute of Technology Calicut, India

    5 publications · 647 citations

    5

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Institutions

514

  1. University of Tehran

    Tehran, Iran

    13 h-index

    33 publications

    2.5K citations

  2. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

    Barcelona, Spain

    7 h-index

    13 publications

    937 citations

  3. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    6 h-index

    8 publications

    424 citations

  4. Simon Fraser University

    Burnaby, Canada

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    533 citations

  5. Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

    Ahmedabad, India

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    472 citations

  6. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    672 citations

  7. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    561 citations

  8. Agricultural & Applied Economics Association

    Milwaukee, United States

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    317 citations

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Venues

  1. European Journal of Operational Research

    29 publications · 2.7K citations

    21

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  2. Computers & Operations Research

    12 publications · 545 citations

    12

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  3. Journal of the Operational Research Society

    OR · 10 publications · 460 citations

    10

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  4. Journal of Cleaner Production

    10 publications · 378 citations

    10

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  5. Regional Studies

    9 publications · 317 citations

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