The last decade has witnessed an acceleration of retail foreign direct investment into a range of emerging markets across East Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America, led by a small cohort of food and general merchandise retailers from Western Europe, and to a lesser extent, North...

Contents:Volume IAcknowledgementsIntroduction Neil M. Coe and Neil WrigleyPART I RETAIL GLOBALIZATION: EARLY ASSESSMENTS 1. Alan Treadgold (1988), ‘Retailing without Frontiers: The Emergence of Transnational Retailers’2. Walter J. Salmon and André Tordjman (1989), ‘The...

C<sc>oe</sc> N. M., L<sc>ai</sc> K. P. Y. and W<sc>ójcik</sc> D. Integrating finance into global production networks, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. While successful in its aim of 'globalizing' regional development, the global production network (GPN) approach has thus far paid less attention to the role of finance in the dynamics of...

This article considers ways in which local economic policy makers can best proceed with respect to the development of the computer services industry, one of the fastest-growing sectors of the British economy. I suggest that knowledge of the structural and locational dynamics of the industry is...