公司地理是本世纪六十年代初美国地理学家R.B.麦克尼首先提出的。其主旨是企图“使经济地理学中仅仅对物的分析转移到对人及社会组织机构的关注上来”。六十年代以来工业组织的跨国发展及全球化十分迅速,加之七十年代地理学中的行为主义的促进,公司地理作为工业地理学一个新研究领域逐渐活跃起来。现国外有数量可观的工业地理学出版物涉及这个领域,其发展令人关注。 Company geography is the beginning of the sixties of this century American geographer R. B. McNerney first proposed. Its purpose is to “shift the analysis of mere matter in economic geography to the concern of human beings and social organizations.” Since the 1960s, the transnational development and globalization of industrial organizations have been very rapid. In addition to the promotion of behaviorism in geography in the 1970s, corporate geography has gradually become a new field of research in industrial geography. There are a great number of industrial geography publications in foreign countries now that are involved in this area and their development is of concern.