Fei Hongping
The paper attempts to examine the relationships between industrial organizations and their environment from an essentially spatial perspective and organization theory, and inte-grate the generalizations derrived from organization theory and industrial geography to i-dentify spatial linkage patterns created by the enterprises, both in the aggregate and indi-viduallly. These issues are organized around three elements. First, we attempt to examine the conceptualization of spatial linkages of enterprises. Second, we identify the patterns of enterprises under different economic systems and its features in China. Third, particular attention is then given to the relationships between three aspects of organizational struc-tures and its external environment, and its spatial linkage patterns of enterprises. From many organizational factors which might influence the spatial linkage patterns, five have been selected for analysis. They are product types, type of enterprises’ownership (that is, whether or not it is under external control), size of the enterprise, operational technology and organizational complexity. These factors was by themselves highly correlated with value or volume of material and market linkages. Finally, we analyses the changes of spa-tial linkage patterns over time, of a representive sample of the Nanjing Automotive Indus-trial Corporation, and illustrates the the findings with case studies.
