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edited by Piet Pellenbarg and Egbert Wever

Routledge

xvi, 286 p.:ill

Includes bibliographical references and index

The corporate firm in a spatial context / Piet Pellenbarg and Egbert Wever -- Networks of firms in Flanders (Belgium): characteristics and territorial impacts / Dominique Vanneste and Peter Cabus -- Global production and trade systems: the Volvo case / Inge Ivarsson and Claes Alvstam -- The organization of the production process: the case of Smartville / Peter Dorrenbacher and Christian Schulz -- Iinternal venturing: sponsored corporate spin-offs in Sweden / Asa Lindholm Dahlstrand and Martin Wallin -- Becoming a global player: ING real estate / Ed Nozeman -- The industrial structure and location behavior of the US, European and Asian semiconductor industries / Tomokazu Arita and Philip McCann -- Globalization of a potato starch co-operative: the case of Avebe / Dirk Strijker -- Philips: a global electronics firm restructuring its home base / Oedzge Atzema, Egbert Wever and Marlies Krol -- Product upgrading and survival: the case of VW Navarra / Martina Fuchs -- The demise of a local champion: Macmillan Bloedelʹs acquisition by Weyerhaeuser / Roger Hayter -- Glaxosmithkline: regional and local networking in a post-communist economy / Tadeus Stryjakiewicz -- Epilogue: a relational perspective / Peter Dicken

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