Piet Pellenbarg, Egbert Wever

International Business Geography

Case Studies of Corporate Firms

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores changes in the international economic environment, their impacts on the strategy of firms and the spatial consequences of these changes in strategy. This book is a resource for students and researchers working and studying in the areas of international business, corporations, business strategy, economic geography and business geography.

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Of interest to a range of disciplines within business and management, economics and geography, this book, written by eminent scholars, explores changes in the international economic environment, their impacts on the strategy of firms and the spatial consequences of these changes in strategy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780415429191
• ISBN-10: 0415429196
• Artikelnr.: 32095909

Autorenporträt

Piet Pellenbarg, Egbert Wever

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Corporate Firm in a Spatial Context 2. Networks of Firms in Flanders
(Belgium): Characteristics and Territorial Impacts 3. Global Production and
Trade Systems: The Volvo Case 4. The Organization of the Production
Process: The Case of Smartville 5. Internal Venturing: Sponsored Corporate
Spin-Offs in Sweden 6. Becoming a Global Player: Ing Real Estate 7. The
Industrial Structure and Location Behaviour of the US, European and Asian
Semiconductor Industries 8. Globalization of a Potato Starch Co-Operative:
The Case of Avebe 9. Philips: A Global Electronics Firm Restructuring its
Home Base 10. Product Upgrading and Survival: The Case of VW Navarra 11.
The Demise of a Local Champion: Macmillan Bloedel's Acquisition by
Weyerhaeuser 12. Glaxosmithkline: Regional and Local Networking in a
Post-Communist Economy 13. Epilogue: A Relational Perspective