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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.
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-depth examination of these structural changes and their impact. Case studies from a range of countries including Japan, Turkey, Sweden, Germany and the USA offer insight into different national contexts and are used to explore a variety of theoretical and empirical issues relating to the geography of growth. Assessing the implications of globalization for businesses and sectors, the chapters focus on the interdependencies between different economic and political layers, and explore topics such as human capital, creativity, innovation, networks and collaboration. Researchers and policy-makers who are interested in regional growth at different spatial scales will find that this work addresses a number of existing knowledge gaps. Students of economics, economic geography, regional science and international industrial management will also find it to be a valuable interdisciplinary resource to help deepen their knowledge of the myriad processes induced by globalization