Globalization, International Spillovers and Sectoral Changes

Contents:

1. Globalization, international spillovers and sectoral changes: an introduction
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 Pesaemaa 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 Loeoef

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 Hovardaoglu

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 Grasjoe

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

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• Estudos regionais
• Geografia económica
• Economia urbana
• Globalização