Globalization, international spillovers and sectoral changes implications for regions and industries
As a consequence of globalization, news, ideas and knowledge are moving quickly across national borders and generating international spillovers. So too, however, are economic and financial crises. Combining a variety of methods, concepts and interdisciplinary approaches, this book provides an in-dep...
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| Language: | English |
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Northampton, MA
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
2018, 2018
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| Series: | New horizons in regional science
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Table of Contents:
- Contents: 1. Introduction: setting the stage; identifying the major drivers of globalization / Charlie Karlsson, Andreas P. Cornett and Tina Wallin
- Part I: General aspects of globalization
- 2. Does culture matter? The role of board efficacy, growth and competitiveness in Western and Asian Corporate Governance / Ossi Pesämaa and Martin Svensson
- 3. The impact of technology spillovers and international knowledge flows on the productivity and innovativeness of UK multinationals / Gary Cook, Yevgeniya Shevtsova and Hans Lööf
- 4. How does distance determine multinational location choice? A literature review / Trudy-Ann Stone
- Part II: Sector-specific transformations
- 5. Yanagiya: One of the best practice manufacturing SMEs in Japan / Makoto Hirano, Mitsuhiro Kurashige and Kiyonori Sakakibara
- 6. ICT as a driver of innovation : a life cycle approach / Ola Olsson
- Part III: Implications for regions in general
- 7. Knowledge-based strategies and sources of growth in small and medium-sized cities: a lesson from the literature / Amjad Naveed
- 8. Location, location, location: place-specific human capital, rural firm entry and firm survival / Georgeanne M. Artz, Zizhen Guo, and Peter F. Orazem
- 9. Succeeding generations, changing trajectories : influences of generational transition on local development experiences / Ozan Hovardaoǧlu
- 10. The Swedish commuting pattern : a gravity model of commuting, with housing-expenditure and income constraints / Michael Olsson
- Part IV: Implications for cross-border regions
- 11. Employment and economic activity in different Swedish border regions / Tobias Arvemo and Urban Gråsjö
- 12. Identifying potential human capital creation within the cross-border institutional thickness model in the Rhine-Waal Region / Nino Javakhishvili-Larsen, Andreas P. Cornett, and Martin Klatt
- Index