Location, Competitiveness, and the Multinational Enterprise
- 30 August 2001
- book chapter
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP)
Abstract
An overview is given of the key insights, resulting from recent international business research on the interactions between location advantages and the competitiveness of multinational enterprises (MNEs). There are four main sections. The first discusses the evolution of the location advantage concept in the international economics literature; the complex nature of location advantages for MNEs is more fully discussed in the second section. The third section describes the intellectual foundations of a spatial analysis of MNE activities. The fourth section discusses the relative contribution of home country‐specific advantages (CSAs) and host CSAs to MNE competitiveness: it concludes that host CSAs may become increasingly important in achieving global competitiveness.Keywords
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