International business geography : case studies of corporate firms / edited by Piet Pellenbarg and Egbert Wever.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The corporate firm in a spatial context / Piet Pellenbarg and Egbert Wever -- Networks of firms in Flanders, Belgium : characteristics and territorial impacts / Dominique Vanneste and Peter Cabus -- Global production and trade systems : the Volvo case / Inge Ivarsson and Claes Alvstam -- The organization of the production process : the case of Smartville / Peter DoÌr̂renbaÌĉher and Christian Schulz -- Internal venturing : sponsored corporate spin-offs in Sweden / AÌ{u3860}Lindholm Dahlstrand and Martin W. Wallin -- Becoming a global player : ING real estate / Ed Nozeman -- The industrial structure and location behavior of the US, European, and Asian semiconductor industries / Tomokazu Arita and Philip McCann -- Globalization of a potato starch co-operative : the case of AVEBE / Dirk Strijker -- Philips : a global electronics firm restructuring its home base / Oedzge Atzema, Egbert Wever and Marloes Krol -- Product upgrading and survival : the case of VW Navarra / Martina Fuchs -- The demise of a local champion : Macmillan Bloedel's acquisition by Weyerhaeuser / Roger Hayter -- GlaxoSmithKline : regional and local networking in a post-communist economy / Tadeus Stryjakiewicz -- Epilogue : a relational perspective / Peter Dicken.