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CONTENTS

List of figures

List of tables

Notes on contributors

  1    Introduction to the Companion

Gary Cook, Frank McDonald, Jennifer Johns, Jonathan Beaverstock and Naresh Pandit

PART I
Some core material in International Business

  2    Space and International Business

Steven Brakman and Charles van Marrewijk

  3    Networks and alliances

Keith W. Glaister

  4    Outsourcing, offshoring and the global factory

Roger Strange and Giovanna Magnani

  5    The regional MNE and coordination of MNE organizational structures

Quyen T.K. Nguyen

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

Alain Verbeke and Wenlong Yuan

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PART II
Some core material in Economic Geography

  7    The current research programme in Economic Geography

Trevor J. Barnes and Eric Sheppard

  8    Evolutionary Economic Geography: an emerging field or framework?

David L. Rigby

  9    Global production networks

Neil M. Coe

10    The relational turn in Economic Geography

James T. Murphy

PART III
The interface between Economic Geography and International Business

11    Economic Geography and International Business

Henry Wai-chung Yeung

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

Bo Nielsen, Christian Asmussen and Anthony Goerzen

13    The region in International Business and Economic Geography

Crispian Fuller

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

Gary Cook and Naresh Pandit

15    Strategic cities within global urban networks

Ben Derudder, Peter J. Taylor, James Faulconbridge, Michael Hoyler and Pengfei Ni

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

Noemi Sinkovics, Rudolf R. Sinkovics, Samia Ferdous Hoque and Matthew Alford

17    The firm as a differentiated network and Economic Geography

Jens Gammelgaard and Frank McDonald

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PART IV
Key research at the interface of International Business and Economic Geography

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

Philip Cooke

19    International knowledge transfer

Yan Wu and Yong Yang

20    Capital projects and infrastructure in urban and economic development

Phillip O’Neill

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

Yoo Jung Ha, Yingqi Wei and Yaoan Wu

22    The effect of location on entrepreneurship

Tarun Kanti Bose, Pavlos Dimitratos and Frank McDonald

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

Sierk Horn and Nigel Holden

24    Foreign direct investment motivated by institution shopping

Mike W. Peng and Young H. Jung

PART V
Location and competitiveness

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

Ioana R. Bedreaga, Raquel Ortega Argilés and Philip McCann

26    The competitiveness of location in International Business and Economic Geography

Philippe Gugler

27    The changing geography of innovation and the multinational enterprise

Davide Castellani

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PART VI
Services, International Business and Economic Geography

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

Neil Wrigley and Steve Wood

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

Jeremy Howells and Michelle Lowe

30    The internationalization of producer services

Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen and Torsten Schunder

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

John R. Bryson

32    The culture of finance

Gordon L. Clark

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

Jonathan Beaverstock and William S. Harvey

PART VII
Epilogue

34    Epilogue

Gary Cook

Index