GEO 301 Lecture Notes - Tim Hortons, Shopping Mall, Economic Geography
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Organic growth: slow process, owned by actual company choosing to expand and grow, open up one store, open up another store, another store, with capital, you can speed up process, 2008: companies closed their doors. Linen"s and things: two different types of organic growth strategies, hierarchical diffusion (refer to slides) Pop culture in toronto makes it attractive. This is why we have the most initial openings. Start in higher order locations and move lower order locations. Start in big cities like toronto, calgary, vancouver and move out: contagious diffusion. Start in a particular region and expand into neighbouring locations: hierarchial/contagious combination. Requires organization to have reached a large size: wal mart had a reverse hierarchial contagious combination. Started in small towns and moved out into big cities: international organic growth. Works for certain retail sectors and doesn"t work for others.
