International Business Geography

<p>Written by eminent scholars who are well known within their fields across Europe, this book explores changes in the international economic environment, their impacts on the strategy of firms and the spatial consequences of these changes in strategy.</p><p>The economic environment in which major companies operate is subject to rapid and important changes. Such changes have their impact on the strategy of major and even smaller companies and changes in these firm's strategies often have important implications for the location choice of their activities, be it production, outsourcing, R&D or administrative activities. </p><p>Addressing these issues in a clear yet rigorous manner, this book is an excellent resource for students and researchers working and studying in the areas of international business, corporations, business strategy, economic geography and business geography.</p> 1. The Corporate Firm in a Spatial Context 2. Networks of Firms in Flanders (Belgium): Characteristicsand Territorial Impacts 3. Global Productionand Trade Systems: The Volvo Case 4. The Organizationof theProduction Process: The Caseof Smartville 5. Internal Venturing: Sponsored Corporate Spin-Offsin Sweden 6. Becominga Global Player: Ing Real Estate 7. The Industrial Structure and Location Behaviourof the US,Europeanand Asian Semiconductor Industries 8. Globalization of aPotato Starch Co-Operative: The Caseof Avebe 9. Philips: A Global Electronics Firm Restructuring itsHome Base 10. Product Upgrading andSurvival: The Caseof VW Navarra 11. The Demise of aLocal Champion: Macmillan Bloedel's Acquisition byWeyerhaeuser 12. Glaxosmithkline: Regional andLocal Networking in a Post-Communist Economy 13. Epilogue: A Relational Perspective