Multinational Enterprises Innovation Networks and the Role of Cities

Iammarino, Simona; McCann, Philip

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“…From there, however, things get murkier. Among city-regions, productivity effects are not linearly linked to size (Iammarino and McCann, 2015). Across developed countries, the relationship between city size and productivity adopts a Ushaped form (OECD, 2006).…”

Section: Should We Focus On Efficiency First? the Importance Of Agglomentioning

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Regional inequality in Europe: evidence, theory and policy implications

Iammarino

Rodríguez‐Pose

Storper

2018

Journal of Economic Geography

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Regional economic divergence has become a threat to economic progress, social cohesion and political stability in Europe. Market processes and policies that are supposed to spread prosperity and opportunity are no longer sufficiently effective. The evidence points to the existence of several different modes of regional economic performance in Europe, responding to different development challenges and opportunities. Both mainstream and heterodox theories have gaps in their ability to explain the existence of these different regional trajectories and the weakness of the convergence processes among them. Therefore, a different approach is required, one that strengthens Europe's strongest regions but develops new approaches to promote opportunity in industrial declining and less-developed regions. There is ample new theory and evidence to support such an approach, which we have labelled 'place-sensitive distributed development policy'.

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Regional inequality in Europe: evidence, theory and policy implications

Iammarino

Rodríguez‐Pose

Storper

2018

Journal of Economic Geography

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“…This is not surprising considering that production activities are likely to be associated with the occurrence of agglomeration economies and localised backward and forward linkages. However, in the case of ‘HQ & Inno’ the coefficients turn out to be negative and significant: this might be due to the fact that, while corporate headquarters tend to concentrate in large urban agglomerations (particularly capital cities) mainly for political networking and lobbying reasons, this is not normally the case for innovation activities (Iammarino & McCann ). Previous research has shown that MNE technological and innovation operations are unlikely to be located in the vicinity of those of competitive rivals (see, among others, Cantwell & Santangelo ; Alcácer ; Verbeke et al .…”

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The Geography of Foreign Investments in the EU Neighbourhood

Ascani

Crescenzi

Iammarino

2016

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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This paper aims at investigating the drivers of Multinational Enterprise (MNE) investment in countries linked to the 'core' of the European Union (EU 15) by different degrees of functional, economic and political integration: the EU 'new' Member States, accession and candidate countries, European Neighbourhood Policy countries, as well as Russia. Understanding the drivers of foreign direct investment (FDI) in these countries is highly relevant in consideration of their increasing integration into the global market and the strong influence exerted by the EU on this process. By employing data on individual greenfield investment projects for the period 2003 to 2008, this paper aims to disentangle the drivers of FDI in these countries for different industrial sectors, business functions and investment origins. The empirical results suggest that FDI in the area tends to follow market-seeking and efficiency-oriented strategies, and show path-dependency and concentration patterns that may reinforce core-periphery development trajectories in the EU neighbourhood

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“…Given the historical context this is partly understandable. Yet, even now after two decades of rethinking the role played by multinationals in economic geography, these key insights and how they link to the current world still remain largely underexplored (Iammarino and McCann 2015).…”

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“…Global regionalism is also characterised by a slicing up and recombination of global value-chains, in which establishments and groups of activities are unbundled (Baldwin 2011) primarily across groups of neighbouring economic systems. At the core of these global regions are global cities, which house most of the power functions of large corporations (Iammarino and McCann 2015).…”

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Network Geographies and Geographical Networks: Co-dependence and Co-evolution of Multinational Enterprises and Space

Iammarino¹,

McCann²

2018

Oxford Handbooks Online

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The main analytical and multidisciplinary frameworks adopted for understanding the multinational enterprise (MNE) have tended to be largely non-spatial and non-geographical in nature. Although there have been some recent developments incorporating geography into the analysis of the of MNE studies the longstanding and widespread absence of geography in MNE studies leads to analytical problems. In particular, in the investigation of MNE operations and their interactions with different economic actors and contexts, the use of typical dichotomies, such as home versus host, horizontal versus vertical integration, and determinant versus impact, today prove to be much less effective or relevant than might previously have been the case. More specifically, the fundamental geographical and institutional re-orderings associated with modern globalization mean that nowadays we see increasingly co-dependent and co-evolutionary corporate and geographical networks. Understanding these is essential in order to understand the new international division of labour.

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Multinational Enterprises Innovation Networks and the Role of Cities

Cited by 6 publications

References 69 publications

Regional inequality in Europe: evidence, theory and policy implications

Regional inequality in Europe: evidence, theory and policy implications

The Geography of Foreign Investments in the EU Neighbourhood

Network Geographies and Geographical Networks: Co-dependence and Co-evolution of Multinational Enterprises and Space

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