Geographies of production III

Abstract

This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link AbstractWithin economic geography there has been a growing body of work that straddles the disciplinary boundaries of management studies and international business (IB) scholarship.Whilst this growing cross-disciplinary proximity may be related to increasing numbers of economic geographers being located in business and management schools, this report argues that it also corresponds to a growing fruitful and productive cross-disciplinary interest from both management studies and international business. It contends that there is growing epistemological and theoretical common ground between both these disciplines and economic geography which reflects a shift towards spatial thinking being increasingly evident in the empirical and conceptual concerns of management and IB scholars. The report reviews two major elements to this intersection within the recent economic geographical literature -what might be loosely be termed the 'new management geography' and a broad set work that brings together the thinking of economic geographers and IB scholarship concerned within firm internationalization.

The role of tax havens and offshore financial centres in shaping corporate geographies: an industry sector perspective

“…Analyzing the role of THOFC in global corporate networks requires an understanding about why firms locate where they do, and how this choice has both shaped and been shaped by regional alliances and networks (Barney, 1991;Gulati, 1998). Whilst this is a rising subject within the EG and SM literatures, there has been limited crossdialogue despite their increasingly spatial thinking of the relationship between firm-level decisions and corporate geographies (Cantwell, 2014;Jones, 2018;Mudambi et al, 2018). Similar intersections have been explored in other ideologically similar theories, such as world city networks (WCN) and global production networks (GPN), in which collaborative projects examined the relationship between actor decision-making in production and global economic connections (Coe, Dicken, Hess, & Yeung, 2010;Taylor, Derudder, Faulconbridge, Hoyler, & Ni, 2014).…”

“…While several staple theories of SM and international business (IB) such as the resource-based view (Wernerfelt, 1984), and Dunning's (1977) ownership location internationalization (OLI), treat space and place as strategic assets (cf. Jones, 2018), or as part of a strategy to access factors of production or new markets, the integration of THOFC into firm networks suggests that new geographical considerations are at work. Financialization of the firm, and the economy more broadly, has meant that MNCs have shifted their locational considerations toward those that optimize balance sheets.…”

Investigating the Role of Cultural Awareness in A Multicultural Business Environment: A Case Study Based on Turkish and British Markets

“…Outlining the strategies adopted by a company in a new cultural context and the adjustment of the management approach in the face of various cultural differences' impact is crucial. Decisions taken in the international business environment might lead to a loss of management control on the host country market (Jansson, 2007). Fulfilling economic, legal, and political requirements in an unfamiliar territory may not be achieved if the cultural rules and norms are not met (Ramirez et al, 2019).…”