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 ONeill
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
