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The fields of geography and international business share an interest in the same phenomena, whilst each provides both a differing perspective and different research methods in attempting to understand those phenomena. This book crystallises how the complementarities between the two fields may fruitfully and best be exploited.

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The fields of Economic Geography and International Business share an interest in the same phenomena, whilst each provides both a differing perspective and different research methods in attempting to understand those phenomena.

The Routledge Companion to the Geography of International Business explores the nature and scope of inter-disciplinary work between Economic Geography and International Business in explaining the central issues in the international economy. Contributions written by leading specialists in each field (including some chapters written by inter-disciplinary teams) focus on the nature of multinational firms and their strategies, where they choose to locate their activities, how they create and manage international networks and the key relationships between multinationals and the places where they place their operations. Topics covered include the internationalisation of service industries, the influence of location on the competitiveness of firms and the economic dynamism of regions and where economic activity takes place and how knowledge, goods and services flow between locations.

The book examines the areas for fruitful inter-disciplinary work between International Business and Economic Geography and sets out a road map for future joint research, and is an essential resource for students and practitioners of International Business and Economic Development.

?This is a welcome and timely contribution to the interdisciplinary space that has long existed between the fields of economic geography and international business. It brings together leading scholars from both disciplines in a wide-ranging volume that is sure to be essential reading for anyone interested in the many theoretical and empirical intersections that span these fields.? ? Professor Andrew Jones, Vice-President (Research and Enterprise), City, University of London

'This comprehensive volume shows that International Business and Economic Geography are cognate, linked and complementary fields of endeavour.? An outstanding list of authors provide a compelling guide to the synergies between these two research fields and the mutual benefits that cooperation across the subjects can bring.? This results in a strong research agenda for the future.' ? Professor Peter J Buckley OBE, FBA, Centre for International Business University of Leeds (CIBUL)

'This Companion decidedly shows how the disciplines of Economic Geography and International Business can and should engage with each other. An excellent collection of works by an array of authors, from household names to younger talent, from across the World.' ? Gabriel R.G. Benito, BI Norwegian Business School

Tartalomjegyzék:

Chapter 1 Introduction to the Companion

Chapter 2 Space and International Business

Chapter 3 Networks and alliances

Chapter 4 Outsourcing, offshoring and the global factory

Chapter 5 The regional MNE and coordination of MNE organizational structures

Chapter 6 The dynamics of multinational enterprise subsidiary roles in an era of regionalization

Chapter 7 The current research programme in Economic Geography

Chapter 8 Evolutionary Economic Geography: an emerging field or framework?

Chapter 9 Global production networks

Chapter 10 The relational turn in Economic Geography

Chapter 11 Economic Geography and International Business

Chapter 12 Toward a synthesis of micro and macro factors that influence foreign direct investment location choice

Chapter 13 The region in International Business and Economic Geography

Chapter 14 Cities and International Business: insights from cross-disciplinary perspectives

Gary Cook and Naresh Pandit

Chapter 15 Strategic cities within global urban networks

Chapter 16 The use of global value chain/global production network related literature in International Business research: investigating the nature and degree of integration

Chapter 17 The firm as a differentiated network and Economic Geography

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Chapter 18 Corporate learning and knowledge flows: from glass pipelines to dark pools

Chapter 19 International knowledge transfer

Chapter 20 Capital projects and infrastructure in urban and economic development

Chapter 21 Stepping out of the comfort zone? An examination of regional orientation in emerging-economy MNEs? cross-border M&As

Chapter 22 The effect of location on entrepreneurship

Chapter 23 Language and the development of trade networks in Early Modern Europe: modern reflexes, unexpected consequences

Chapter 24 Foreign direct investment motivated by institution shopping

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Chapter 25 Multinational performance and the geography of FDI: issues of embeddedness, strategic fit and the dimensions of distance

Chapter 26 The competitiveness of location in International Business and Economic Geography

Chapter 27 The changing geography of innovation and the multinational enterprise

Chapter 28 An Economic Geography of globalizing retail: emergence, characteristics, contribution

Chapter 29 Innovation, market segmentation and entrepreneurship in services: the case of the hotel industry

Chapter 30 The internationalization of producer services

Chapter 31 Designed here, re-designed there but made somewhere else: geography, translocal business and the exploitation of difference

Chapter 32 The culture of finance

Chapter 33 The internationalization and localization of professional services: the case of executive search firms in Australia

Chapter 34 Epilogue

Gary Cook