Geography, location, and strategy / edited by Juan Alcácer, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas, Bernard Yin Yeung.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Silverman, Brian S., editor.

Alcácer, Juan, editor.

Kogut, Bruce Mitchel, editor.

Thomas, Catherine, active 2017, editor.

Yeung, Bernard Yin, editor.

Series:

Advances in strategic management ; v. 36.

Advances in strategic management, 0742-3322 ; v. 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strategic planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (469 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Prelims

Geography, location, and strategy

How firms are organized across borders

How global firms overcome cross-border challenges

Value created by cross-border MNC activity

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781787146341

1787146340

9781787142763

1787142760