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1 Introduction to the Companion |
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Part I: Some core material in International Business |
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2 Space and International Business |
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4 Outsourcing, offshoring and the global factory |
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5 The regional MNE and coordination of MNE organizational structures |
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78 | (16) |
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6 The dynamics of multinational enterprise subsidiary roles in an era of regionalization |
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Part II: Some core material in Economic Geography |
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7 The current research programme in Economic Geography |
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115 | (14) |
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8 Evolutionary Economic Geography: an emerging field or framework? |
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129 | (18) |
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9 Global production networks |
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147 | (14) |
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10 The relational turn in Economic Geography |
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Part III: The interface between Economic Geography and International Business |
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11 Economic Geography and International Business |
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12 Toward a synthesis of micro and macro factors that influence foreign direct investment location choice |
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13 The region in International Business and Economic Geography |
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213 | (14) |
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14 Cities and International Business: insights from cross-disciplinary perspectives |
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227 | (15) |
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15 Strategic cities within global urban networks |
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242 | (16) |
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16 The use of global value chain/global production network related literature in International Business research: investigating the nature and degree of integration |
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17 The firm as a differentiated network and Economic Geography |
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Part IV: Key research at the interface of International Business and Economic Geography |
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18 Corporate learning and knowledge flows: from glass pipelines to dark pools |
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19 International knowledge transfer |
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332 | (13) |
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20 Capital projects and infrastructure in urban and economic development |
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21 Stepping out of the comfort zone? An examination of regional orientation in emerging-economy MNEs' cross-border M&As |
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22 The effect of location on entrepreneurship |
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23 Language and the development of trade networks in Early Modern Europe: modern reflexes, unexpected consequences |
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24 Foreign direct investment motivated by institution shopping |
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Part V: Location and competitiveness |
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25 Multinational performance and the geography of FDI: issues of embeddedness, strategic fit and the dimensions of distance |
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26 The competitiveness of location in International Business and Economic Geography |
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27 The changing geography of innovation and the multinational enterprise |
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Part VI: Services, International Business and Economic Geography |
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28 An Economic Geography of globalizing retail: emergence, characteristics, contribution |
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29 Innovation, market segmentation and entrepreneurship in services: the case of the hotel industry |
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30 The internationalization of producer services |
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31 Designed here, re-designed there but made somewhere else: geography, translocal business and the exploitation of difference |
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32 The culture of finance |
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33 The internationalization and localization of professional services: the case of executive search firms in Australia |
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Part VII: Epilogue |
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Index |
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