Routledge Companion to the Geography of International Business

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.

‘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

• Chapter 1 Introduction to the CompanionGary Cook, Frank McDonald, Jennifer Johns, Jonathan Beaverstock and Naresh PanditPART I Some core material in International BusinesstChapter 2 Space and International BusinessSteven Brakman and Charles van MarrewijkChapter 3 Networks and alliancesKeith W. GlaisterChapter 4 Outsourcing, offshoring and the global factoryRoger Strange and Giovanna MagnaniChapter 5 The regional MNE and coordination of MNE organizational structuresQuyen T.K. NguyenChapter 6 The dynamics of multinational enterprise subsidiary roles in an era of regionalizationAlain Verbeke and Wenlong YuanPART II Some core material in Economic GeographyChapter 7 The current research programme in Economic Geography Trevor J. Barnes and Eric SheppardChapter 8 Evolutionary Economic Geography: an emerging field or framework? David L. RigbyChapter 9 Global production networks Neil M. CoeChapter 10 The relational turn in Economic Geography James T. MurphyPART III The interface between Economic Geography and International BusinessChapter 11 Economic Geography and International Business Henry Wai-chung YeungChapter 12 Toward a synthesis of micro and macro factors that influence foreign direct investment location choiceBo Nielsen, Christian Asmussen and Anthony GoerzenChapter 13 The region in International Business and Economic Geography Crispian FullerChapter 14 Cities and International Business: insights from cross-disciplinary perspectivesGary Cook and Naresh PanditChapter 15 Strategic cities within global urban networksBen Derudder, Peter J. Taylor, James Faulconbridge, Michael Hoyler and Pengfei NiChapter 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 AlfordChapter 17 The firm as a differentiated network and Economic GeographyJens Gammelgaard and Frank McDonaldPART IV Key research at the interface of International Business and Economic GeographyChapter 18 Corporate learning and knowledge flows: from glass pipelines to dark pools Philip CookeChapter 19 International knowledge transferYan Wu and Yong YangChapter 20 Capital projects and infrastructure in urban and economic developmentPhillip O’NeillChapter 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 WuChapter 22 The effect of location on entrepreneurshipTarun Kanti Bose, Pavlos Dimitratos and Frank McDonaldChapter 23 Language and the development of trade networks in Early Modern Europe: modern reflexes, unexpected consequences Sierk Horn and Nigel HoldenChapter 24 Foreign direct investment motivated by institution shoppingMike Peng and Young H. JungPART V Location and competitivenessChapter 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 McCannChapter 26 The competitiveness of location in International Business and Economic Geography Philippe GuglerChapter 27 The changing geography of innovation and the multinational enterpriseDavide CastellaniPART VI Services, International Business and Economic GeographyChapter 28 An Economic Geography of globalizing retail: emergence, characteristics, contribution Neil Wrigley and Steve WoodChapter 29 Innovation, market segmentation and entrepreneurship in services: the case of the hotel industry Jeremy Howells and Michelle LoweChapter 30 The internationalization of producer servicesSharmistha Bagchi-Sen and Torsten SchunderChapter 31 Designed here, re-designed there but made somewhere else: geography, translocal business and the exploitation of differenceJohn R. BrysonChapter 32 The culture of finance Gordon L. ClarkChapter 33 The internationalization and localization of professional services: the case of executive search firms in AustraliaJonathan Beaverstock and William S. HarveyPART VII EpilogueChapter 34 EpilogueGary Cook