Integrating Business and Location: An Overview of Two Theoretical Frameworks on Multinational Firms

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" Integrating Business and Location: An Overview of Two Theoretical Frameworks on Multinational Firms "
Aoyama, Yuko

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	930249
Doc. No	:	LA29k56713
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Aoyama, Yuko
Title & Author	:	Integrating Business and Location: An Overview of Two Theoretical Frameworks on Multinational Firms [Article]\ Aoyama, Yuko
Title of Periodical	:	Berkeley Planning Journal
Volume/ Issue Number	:	11/1
Date	:	1996
Abstract	:	This article presents an emerging theoretical framework on the locational dynamics of multinational firms in the 1990s. Until recently, theories on multinational firms have developed separately in two fields, one in the business/economics literature, with a focus on the logic of competition, and another in the economic geography literature, with a focus on locational dynamics. The article reviews existing theories in these two traditions and then describ es the emerging views of the 1990s, which address competition and location sim ultaneously. The article argues that the development of an integrated framework is useful for understanding the increasing importance of location in the competition among multinational firms.