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Increasing Returns, Input-Output Linkages, and Technological Leapfrogging
Gallo, Fredrik - In: Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy 6 (2006) 1
Abstract Firms agglomerate in one region due to increasing returns, input-output linkages and transportation costs. In the de-industrialised region factor prices are lower and a new technology may be profitable to adopt in that region instead, inducing a change in the technological leadership....
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Hong Kong and Shanghai: current and/or future international financial centres?
Adams, John; Wong, Andrew YC - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 8 (2015) 3, pp. 183-193
Purpose – This paper publishes summary results for the first time of a major survey of senior financial practitioners undertaken in Hong Kong and Shanghai in 2005, and compares these with the Global Financial Centre Index first created in 2007 to determine the extent to which both are...
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FDI Impacts On Industrial Agglomeration: The Case Of Java, Indonesia
Kuncoro, Mudrajad; Wahyuni, Sari - In: Journal of Asia Business Studies 3 (2009) 2, pp. 65-77
This paper attempts to examine which theory is best at explaining the geographic concentration in Java, an island in …‐Classical Theory (NCT), New Trade Theory (NTT) and New Economic Geography (NEG). Using the regional specialization index as a measure …
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Economic Geography and the Effect of Environmental Pollution on Agglomeration
Lange, Andreas; Quaas, Martin F - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 7 (2007) 1
Abstract We study how local environmental pollution affects spatial patterns of economic activities when workers can migrate. Based on a New Economic Geography model, we analytically characterize the stability conditions for three different types of equilibria: symmetric spreading, partial and...
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Clustering or interacting for knowledge?
Eklinder-Frick, Jens Ola - In: IMP Journal 10 (2016) 2, pp. 221-242
Purpose – The European Union has an ambition to become the world’s most competitive and knowledge-based economy, which entails investments in cluster initiatives. Most researchers, however find that such investments have had limited impact. The notion of creating industrial clusters is...
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Knowledge will set you free
Dau, Luis Alfonso - In: International Journal of Emerging Markets 11 (2016) 2, pp. 121-147
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to combine notions from the POST Model of Economic Geography and Learning Theory … literature by linking the POST Model with the classification of types of knowledge from Learning Theory. The paper analyzes how … several important contributions to the international strategy literature. First, it contributes to Learning Theory by …
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Current thinking on cluster theory and its translation in economic geography and strategic and operations management
Manzini, Reinaldo Belickas; Di Serio, Luiz Carlos - In: Competitiveness Review: An International Business Journal 27 (2017) 4, pp. 366-389
Purpose This paper offers an approach for outlining the main dimensions surrounding clusters in three areas of knowledge: economic geography, strategic management and operations management, the first being considered its natural field of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach The work was...
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Re-examining regional borders and the multinational enterprise
Aguilera, Ruth V.; Flores, Ricardo; Kim, Jin Uk - In: The Multinational Business Review 23 (2015) 4, pp. 374-394
key insights from the theory of the regional MNE and economic geography to re-orient the treatment of regional borders …
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Academic Entrepreneurship for Scaling Innovation
Baporikar, Neeta - In: International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and … 6 (2016) 2, pp. 21-39
Academic Entrepreneurship in the last three decades has risen to greater heights. There are various reasons too. Indian's education sector has been undergoing sea changes in these decades. Every state has been opening up and there has been a plethora of institutions established. In the process,...
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Holistic Approach for Balanced Scorecard as Managerial Decision Making Tool
Baporikar, Neeta - In: International Journal of System Dynamics Applications … 5 (2016) 1, pp. 31-42
theory approach, this paper examines some theoretical and methodological issues of BSC to develop a holistic perspective when …
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