How do multinational enterprises co-locate in industrial districts? An introduction to the integration of alternative explanations from international business and economic geography literatures
Authors
Hervás Oliver, José LuisDate
2015Bibliographic citation
Investigaciones regionales = Journal of Regional Research, 2015, n. 32, p. 115-132
Keywords
Distritos industriales
Geografía económica
International business
Off-shoring
Empresas multinacionales
Industrial districts
Economic geography
International business
MNEs
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
Este artículo se centra en comprender por qué las empresas multinacionales se co-localiza en los distritos industriales, destacando, desplegando y describiendo el potencial de las aglomeraciones, locales o de nivel regional, de personas y empresas, que permiten a las empresas multinacionales obtener fuentes adicionales de ventaja competitiva cuando se adaptan adecuadamente. Para cumplir este objetivo, el trabajo presenta un intento de vincular la literatura de los distritos industriales y la geografía económica con la de international business. Tres marcos teóricos se ponen a prueba en un caso empírico. El documento tiene implicaciones para las dos líneas de la literatura y se abre un debate clave para el futuro. This article focuses on understanding why multinational enterprises co-locate in industrial districts, stressing, unfolding and describing the potential of the local or regional-level agglomerations of people and firms which permits multinational
enterprises to obtain additional sources of competitive advantage when properly fit. In order to fulfil this goal, the paper presents an attempt to link the literature of industrial districts and economic geography with that on international business. Three theoretical frameworks are tested in an empirical case. The paper has implications for the two lines of literature and opens up a key debate for the future.
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