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THE FIRM AS A DIFFERENTIATED NETWORK AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
Jens Gammelgaard and Frank McDonald
Introduction
Economic Geography deals with spatial analysis and focuses on the placement or localization of objects in the ‘landscape’ and how they relate to each other. There is a long tradition in International Business of considering issues connected to the spatial distribution of assets, markets and interaction between these distributions by cross-frontier transactions including foreign trade and foreign direct investment (FDI). Early studies in International Business considered cross-frontier transactions, analysing the importance of access to raw materials, costs of transport, trade and investment obstacles, market conditions, and developments ...
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