How do multinational enterprises co-locate in industrial districts? An introduction to the integration of alternative explanations from international business and economic geography literatures

José Luís Hervás Oliver ()
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José Luís Hervás Oliver: Universitat Politènica de València

INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH, 2015, issue 32, 115-132

Abstract: This article focuses on understanding why multinational enterprises co-locate in industrial districts, stressing, unfolding and describing the potential of the local or regional-level agglomerations of people and firms which permits multinational enterprises to obtain additional sources of competitive advantage when properly fit. In order to fulfil this goal, the paper presents an attempt to link the literature of industrial districts and economic geography with that on international business. Three theoretical frameworks are tested in an empirical case. The paper has implications for the two lines of literature and opens up a key debate for the future.

Keywords: industrial districts; economic geography; international business; off-shoring; MNEs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L60 O14 R30 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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