Multinationals and economic geography: location and technology, innovation

By S. Iammarino, Philip McCann. 2013

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The mismatch between local voting and the local economic consequences of Brexit (2017, background): “First, London is genuinely a ‘global city’ with higher levels of global connectivity (Iammarino & McCann, 2013) on many different dimensions than almost any other city on earth (McCann, 2016).”
Regional inequality in Europe: evidence, theory and policy implications (2019, unknown): “…concentration of power and value creation in certain cities and regions in advanced economies has paired with the widespread diffusion of low-tier activities towards certain places in lagging-behind regions and developing countries (Iammarino and McCann, 2013, 2018; Crescenzi and Iammarino, 2017).”
Agents of Structural Change: The Role of Firms and Entrepreneurs in Regional Diversification (2018, background): “In fact, successful MNEs derive some of their competitive strength from their capacity to integrate the regional resources in different locations through their networks of subsidiaries (Alcácer and Chung 2007; Iammarino and McCann 2013).”
Global investments and regional development trajectories: the missing links (2016, background): “GLOBAL FIRMS’ NETWORKS AND REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY Connectivity and global investment flows: spatial extent, nature and directionality Three key features of the current phase of economic globalization have direct geographical implications (Iammarino & McCann, 2013).”
Foreign multinationals and domestic innovation: Intra-industry effects and firm heterogeneity (2015, unknown): “Nonetheless, after controlling for absorptive capacity, local firms have been often considered as passive technological recipients in the process of technology transfer, which in turn is seen as strictly unidirectional (Iammarino and McCann, 2013).”
Innovation drivers, value chains and the geography of multinational corporations in Europe (2014, background): “…advantage (i.e. market size and labour market characteristics) have only a limited effect upon these decisions but they do complement the search for other factors such as innovation dynamism, skilled labour and generally favourable socio-institutional conditions (Iammarino and McCann 2013).”
Foreign Location Choice: Review and Extensions (2016, unknown): “…theory does not address why MNEs select certain locations over others with sufficient rigor as ‘locational variables are virtually non-existent . . . and overlook(s) the structural imperfections related to socio-economic and institutional geographical contexts’ (Iammarino and McCann 2013, p. 52).”
MNEs as border-crossing multi-location enterprises: The role of discontinuities in geographic space (2013, background): “To understand the role of geographic distance in knowledge-intensive IT-related FDI flows to the United States by measuring the distance between the capital city of the home country and Washington DC (or the geographic center of the United States) does not come close to capturing the importance of S”