Location Choices of Multinational Firms in Europe: The Role of National Boundaries and EU Policy

Conventional accounts often conceive the genesis of capitalism in Europe within the conjunctures of agricultural, commercial, and industrial revolutions. Challenging this widely believed cliché, this volume traces the history of capitalism across civilizations, tenth century onwards, and argues that capitalism was neither a monolithic entity nor exclusively an economic phenomenon confined to the West. Looking at regions as diverse as England, South America, Russia, North Africa, and East, South, West, and Southeast Asia, the book explores the plurality of developments across time and space. The chapters analyse aspects such as historical conjunctures, commodity production and distribution, circulation of knowledge and personnel, and the role of mercantile capital, small producers, and force—all the while stressing the necessity to think beyond present-day national boundaries. The book argues that the multiple histories of capitalism can be better understood from a trans-regional, intercontinental, and interconnected perspective.

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Testing the role of intra-metropolitan local factors on knowledge-intensive industries’ location choices

The Annals of Regional Science ◽

10.1007/s00168-020-01035-w ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Miguel Gómez-Antonio ◽

Stuart Sweeney

Keyword(s):

Location Choices ◽

Local Factors ◽

Knowledge Intensive

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Can multinational firms promote gender equality? The role of labour mobility

Transnational Corporations ◽

10.18356/2076099x-27-3-10 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 157-181

Author(s):

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Keyword(s):

Gender Equality ◽

Multinational Firms ◽

Labour Mobility ◽

Promote Gender Equality

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Conceptualising the Role of Expertise in EU Policy-Making

The Contestation of Expertise in the European Union - European Administrative Governance ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-54367-9_2 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 21-45

Author(s):

Tannelie Blom

Keyword(s):

Policy Making ◽

Eu Policy

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The Role of Chinese and Indian-Owned Multinational Firms in the Global Economy

China-India Relations - Understanding China ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-44425-9_6 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 101-118

Author(s):

Fang Lee Cooke ◽

Geoffrey Wood

Keyword(s):

Global Economy ◽

Multinational Firms

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Mobility, Nostalgia, and Ethnic Identity: The Racalmutesi Experience in Canada, and Beyond

Italian Canadiana ◽

10.33137/ic.v35i0.37233 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 35 ◽

pp. 269-284

Author(s):

Sam Migliore

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Identity ◽

Rapid Movement ◽

National Boundaries ◽

Sense Of Home

We are currently in an era characterized by rapid movement; movement of people, products, resources, and information both within and beyond national boundaries. In this paper, I examine the movement not only of Italians (and more specifically Racalmutesi) to Canada, but also of Canadian Italians to Italy and other locations. As part of this discussion, my aim is to explore the role of nostalgia in people’s conceptions of the interrelationships among movement, ethnic identity, and their sense of “home.”

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Performance of Mid-Size Internationalized Indian Firms: Evaluating the Role of Family Control

Asian Journal of Empirical Research ◽

10.18488/journal.1007/2019.9.12/1007.12.387.400 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (12) ◽

pp. 387-400

Author(s):

Faisal M Ahsan ◽

Ajay Singal

Keyword(s):

Multinational Firms ◽

International Expansion ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Family Control ◽

Listed Firms ◽

And Performance ◽

Performance Heterogeneity ◽

The Impact ◽

Degree Of Internationalization

The rapidly growing and gradual emergence of multinational firms from the Indian sub-continent now calls for thorough re-understandings of extant theories and existing ideologies of the ‘internationalization’ process. We would initially assess the three-stage model of internationalization in the context of mid-size Indian firms and intend to investigate the relationship between performance and degree of internationalization. Based on the longitudinal dataset (2005-12) of publicly listed firms, our findings suggested that mid-size firms remained stuck up in the first stage of internationalization and accordingly exhibit a downward-sloping relationship between internationalization’s degree and performance. Most of the mid-size firms continued to show a predominantly family-controlled stance, and the impact of family ownership shows negative effects on the degree of internationalization. By examining the performance heterogeneity in family-owned firms towards internationalization, this paper enriches the existing body of research and assume it to be a prolific addition in the literature on international expansion.

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