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.
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.
Geography, Location, and Strategy - Juan Alcácer, 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, René
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 Alcácer, 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
Juan Alcácer, 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
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.
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