Industrial Location Economics

Contents:

Introduction xiii
Philip McCann

PART I ANALYTICAL APPROACHES TO INDUSTRIAL LOCATION
1 Classical and neoclassical location-production models
Philip McCann

2 The location of economic activity: central place theory and the wider urban system
John B. Parr

3 Geographical grids in 'new economic geography' models
Dirk Stelder

4 Firm migration
Piet H. Pellenbarg, Leo J.G. van Wissen and Jouke van Dijk

PART II CITIES AND INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS
5 Diversity and specialization in cities: why, where and when does it matter?
Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga

6 Global cities, internationalization and urban systems
Ian R. Gordon

7 Clusters and networks: institutional settings and strategic perspectives
Michael Steiner

8 Theory, methods and a cross-metropolitan comparison of business clustering
Edward J. Feser and Stuart H. Sweeney

PART III MULTINATIONAL FIRMS AND LOCATION BEHAVIOUR
9 The location decision of the multinational enterprise
Ram Mudambi

10 The technological relationships between indigenous firms and foreign-owned MNCs in the European regions
John Cantwell and Simona Iammarino

11 The relationship between the spatial and hierarchical organization of multiplant firms: observations from the global semiconductor industry
Tomokazu Arita and Philip McCann

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