Emerald Publishing Limited Geography, Location, and Strategy: 36 (Advances in Strategic Management, 36)

Changes in both technology and global political economy have vastly accelerated the pace of globalization in the last 40 years, eroding barriers that limited firms geographic scope, and unleashing a seemingly unlimited set of new threats, challenges, and opportunities to create value globally. Globalization presents managers with an environment to create value that is more complex, risky, and also more promising than ever before. Despite recent advances in our understanding of how locations impact the creation and appropriation of value by firms, the speed of these changes has often surpassed the speed of research on the connections between geography and firms. This volume draws together researchers working at the forefront of this area in a variety of disciplines economics, geography, marketing, organizational behavior, psychology, sociology, and strategy in order to explore the many ways that locations matter for firms. In 11 varied papers, the authors draw on newly available data, recently developed theory, and diverse methodology to understand the relationships between firm boundaries, firm activities, and geographic borders. Review Business scholars explore multinational production in terms of how firms are organized across borders, how global firms overcome cross-border challenges, and value created by cross-border multinational corporation activity. Among their topic are trade or multinational productions: consumer preference and multi-product firms, multinational business groups, capturing value from intellectual property in a global environment, the spatial diffusion of an invisible corporate practice: revisiting stock backdating 1981-2005, and origin matters: the differential impact of import competition on innovation. -- Annotation ©2017 Ringgold Inc. ― (protoview.com) About the Author Juan Alcácer, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, USA Bruce Kogut, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Catherine Thomas, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK Bernard Yin Yeung, National University of Singapore, Singapore