Geography, Location, and Strategy
1st Edition
Published on 27. April 2017
480 pages
978-1-78714-634-1 (ISBN)
Description
Changes in both technology and global political economy have vastly accelerated the pace of globalization in the last 40 years, eroding barriers that limited firms' geographic scope, and unleashing a seemingly unlimited set of new threats, challenges, and opportunities to create value globally. Globalization presents managers with an environment to create value that is more complex, risky, and also more promising than ever before. Despite recent advances in our understanding of how locations impact the creation and appropriation of value by firms, the speed of these changes has often surpassed the speed of research on the connections between geography and firms. This volume draws together researchers working at the forefront of this area in a variety of disciplines-economics, geography, marketing, organizational behavior, psychology, sociology, and strategy-in order to explore the many ways that locations matter for firms. In 11 varied papers, the authors draw on newly available data, recently developed theory, and diverse methodology to understand the relationships between firm boundaries, firm activities, and geographic borders.
Reviews / Votes
Business scholars explore multinational production in terms of how firms are organized across borders, how global firms overcome cross-border challenges, and value created by cross-border multinational corporation activity. Among their topic are trade or multinational productions: consumer preference and multi-product firms, multinational business groups, capturing value from intellectual property in a global environment, the spatial diffusion of an invisible corporate practice: revisiting stock backdating 1981-2005, and origin matters: the differential impact of import competition on innovation. -- Annotation (c)2017 Ringgold Inc. * (protoview.com) *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bingley
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
11,34 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78714-634-1 (9781787146341)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Juan Alcacer, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, USA
Bruce Kogut, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Catherine Thomas, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
Bernard Yin Yeung, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bruce Kogut, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Catherine Thomas, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
Bernard Yin Yeung, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Content
Geography, Location, and Strategy - Juan Alcacer, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas and Bernard Yeung
PART I: HOW FIRMS ARE ORGANIZED ACROSS BORDERS
The International Configurations of US Multinational Corporations - Heather Berry
Trade of Multinational Production? Consumer Preferences and Multiproduct Firms - Catherine Thomas
Multinational Business Groups - Katalin Szemeredi
The Location of Multinational Firms' R&D Activities Abroad: Host Country University Research, University-Industry Collaboration, and R&D Heterogeneity - Shinya Suzuki, Rene Belderbos and Hyeog Ug Kwon
PART II: HOW GLOBAL FIRMS OVERCOME CROSS-BORDER CHALLENGES
Capturing Value from Intellectual Property (IP) in a Global Environment - Juan Alcacer, Karin Beukel and Bruno Cassiman
Sourcing from Multinational SUppliers to Overcome Weak Contracting Institutions and Gain Supply Chain Capabilities - Kjell Carlsson
Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth? Geographic Concentration, Social Norms, and Knowledge Transfer - Giada Di Stefano, Andrew A. King and Gianmario Verona
The Spatial Diffusion of an Invisible Corporate Practice: Revisiting Stock Backdating, 1981-2005 - Pino G. Audia and Fiona Kun Yao
PART III: VALUE CREATED BY CROSS-BORDER MNC ACTIVITY
Cross-Regional R&D Collaboration and Local Knowledge Spillover - Minyuan Zhao and Mazhar Islam
Origin Matters: The Differential Impact of Import Competition on Innovation - Xiaoyang Li and Yue Maggie Zhou
Multinational Activity in Emerging Markets: How and When Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Growth? - Laura Alfaro
INDEX
PART I: HOW FIRMS ARE ORGANIZED ACROSS BORDERS
The International Configurations of US Multinational Corporations - Heather Berry
Trade of Multinational Production? Consumer Preferences and Multiproduct Firms - Catherine Thomas
Multinational Business Groups - Katalin Szemeredi
The Location of Multinational Firms' R&D Activities Abroad: Host Country University Research, University-Industry Collaboration, and R&D Heterogeneity - Shinya Suzuki, Rene Belderbos and Hyeog Ug Kwon
PART II: HOW GLOBAL FIRMS OVERCOME CROSS-BORDER CHALLENGES
Capturing Value from Intellectual Property (IP) in a Global Environment - Juan Alcacer, Karin Beukel and Bruno Cassiman
Sourcing from Multinational SUppliers to Overcome Weak Contracting Institutions and Gain Supply Chain Capabilities - Kjell Carlsson
Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth? Geographic Concentration, Social Norms, and Knowledge Transfer - Giada Di Stefano, Andrew A. King and Gianmario Verona
The Spatial Diffusion of an Invisible Corporate Practice: Revisiting Stock Backdating, 1981-2005 - Pino G. Audia and Fiona Kun Yao
PART III: VALUE CREATED BY CROSS-BORDER MNC ACTIVITY
Cross-Regional R&D Collaboration and Local Knowledge Spillover - Minyuan Zhao and Mazhar Islam
Origin Matters: The Differential Impact of Import Competition on Innovation - Xiaoyang Li and Yue Maggie Zhou
Multinational Activity in Emerging Markets: How and When Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Growth? - Laura Alfaro
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