1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to the Geography of International Business
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.
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Companion
Gary Cook, Frank McDonald, Jennifer Johns, Jonathan Beaverstock and Naresh Pandit
PART I Some core material in International Businesst
Chapter 2 Space and International Business
Steven Brakman and Charles van Marrewijk
Chapter 3 Networks and alliances
Keith W. Glaister
Chapter 4 Outsourcing, offshoring and the global factory
Roger Strange and Giovanna Magnani
Chapter 5 The regional MNE and coordination of MNE organizational structures
Quyen T.K. Nguyen
Chapter 6 The dynamics of multinational enterprise subsidiary roles in an era of regionalization
Alain Verbeke and Wenlong Yuan
PART II Some core material in Economic Geography
Chapter 7 The current research programme in Economic Geography
Trevor J. Barnes and Eric Sheppard
Chapter 8 Evolutionary Economic Geography: an emerging field or framework?
David L. Rigby
Chapter 9 Global production networks
Neil M. Coe
Chapter 10 The relational turn in Economic Geography
James T. Murphy
PART III The interface between Economic Geography and International Business
Chapter 11 Economic Geography and International Business
Henry Wai-chung Yeung
Chapter 12 Toward a synthesis of micro and macro factors that influence foreign direct investment location choice
Bo Nielsen, Christian Asmussen and Anthony Goerzen
Chapter 13 The region in International Business and Economic Geography
Crispian Fuller
Chapter 14 Cities and International Business: insights from cross-disciplinary perspectives
Gary Cook and Naresh Pandit
Chapter 15 Strategic cities within global urban networks
Ben Derudder, Peter J. Taylor, James Faulconbridge, Michael Hoyler and Pengfei Ni
Chapter 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
Chapter 17 The firm as a differentiated network and Economic Geography
Jens Gammelgaard and Frank McDonald
PART IV Key research at the interface of International Business and Economic Geography
Chapter 18 Corporate learning and knowledge flows: from glass pipelines to dark pools
Philip Cooke
Chapter 19 International knowledge transfer
Yan Wu and Yong Yang
Chapter 20 Capital projects and infrastructure in urban and economic development
Phillip O’Neill
Chapter 21 Stepping out of the comfort zone? An examination of regional orientation in emerging-economy MNEs’ cross-border M&As
Yoo Jung, Yingqi Wei and Yaoan Wu
Chapter 22 The effect of location on entrepreneurship
Tarun Kanti Bose, Pavlos Dimitratos and Frank McDonald
Chapter 23 Language and the development of trade networks in Early Modern Europe: modern reflexes, unexpected consequences
Sierk Horn and Nigel Holden
Chapter 24 Foreign direct investment motivated by institution shopping
Mike Peng and Young H. Jung
PART V Location and competitiveness
Chapter 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
Chapter 26 The competitiveness of location in International Business and Economic Geography
Philippe Gugler
Chapter 27 The changing geography of innovation and the multinational enterprise
Davide Castellani
PART VI Services, International Business and Economic Geography
Chapter 28 An Economic Geography of globalizing retail: emergence, characteristics, contribution
Neil Wrigley and Steve Wood
Chapter 29 Innovation, market segmentation and entrepreneurship in services: the case of the hotel industry
Jeremy Howells and Michelle Lowe
Chapter 30 The internationalization of producer services
Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen and Torsten Schunder
Chapter 31 Designed here, re-designed there but made somewhere else: geography, translocal business and the exploitation of difference
John R. Bryson
Chapter 32 The culture of finance
Gordon L. Clark
Chapter 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
Chapter 34 Epilogue
Gary Cook
Biography
Gary Cook is Professor of Economics and Head of School at the Hull University Business School. He gained his PhD in Industrial Economics from Manchester Business School. He has published many articles and book chapters in the area of clustering, innovation and multinational enterprise.
Jennifer Johns is a Senior Lecturer in International Business at the University of Liverpool Management School. She works on globalisation, the agglomeration of economic activities, entrepreneurship and innovation and global trade and production networks. Her latest project examines the impacts of additive manufacturing on global production networks.
Frank McDonald is Professor of International Business, University of Leeds Business School, and Author/Editor of 14 books and about 60 articles.
Jonathan Beaverstock is Professor of International Management at the University of Bristol, UK. Previously, he has held Professorships at the University of Nottingham and Loughborough University (both in the UK). He's published widely across the social sciences in leading international journals like the Journal of Economic Geography, Environment and Planning A and Regional Studies. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Naresh Pandit is Professor of International Business at Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia. His research focuses on the interface between International Business, Economic Geography and Economics. It has been funded by 12 grants and has produced 71 journal papers and book chapters.
