Geography and Strategy
Advances in Strategic Management • Volume
20 (2003)
Edited
by Joel A.C. Baum and
Early
research in both economics and sociology paid serious attention to the role
that geographic location played in the organization of industry and other
social processes. As these fields
developed, however, they moved towards approaches that abstracted actors away
from the physical world in which they existed, treating them as though they all
occupied a single point in space.
Nevertheless, location matters. A
resurgence of research across economics, sociology, strategy, organization
theory and marketing has begun to reevaluate the role of geography in business.
This
research typically falls in one of two categories. One line of research investigates the flow of
information across space. The literature
on social networks finds that these networks tend to localize in space. Since a great deal of information depends on
these interpersonal relationships for transmission, knowledge tends to diffuse
slowly through space away from its point of origin. This process can affect the spread of new
strategies and products, the adoption of technological innovations, the
effectiveness of organizational learning, as well as other activities.
A second
body of literature considers the importance of the geographic distribution of
resources. Many of the resources that
firms need to compete effectively are fixed in space from the perspective of an
individual firm. Their distribution can
affect the ease of starting new ventures and the performance of firms. Most interestingly, the location of an
organization relative to its rivals can increase both the intensity of
competition and the likelihood of cooperative behavior, whether intentional or
not.
This volume seeks to bring
a variety of these perspectives together.
By creating a forum for discussing the state of the art in research on
geography and strategy, we hope to provide a compendium of what has been done
and stimulate future research on this important topic.
Read
the review published in the Journal of
International Business Studies, February 2006
Volume
20 (2003) is now available from the publisher
and online retailers.
Editors’ Introduction
·
Geography and Strategy: The
Strategic Management of Place and Space
Part One: Strategic Management of Place
·
Managing Knowledge Spillovers: The Role of Geographic
Proximity
David B. Audretsch
·
Location and Organizing Strategy: Exploring the Influence
of Location on the Organization of Pharmaceutical Research
Jeffrey L. Furman
·
From Conception to Birth:
Jesper B. Sørensen and
·
Hits and Misses: Managers’ (Mis)categorization of
Competitors in the
Joel A. C. Baum and Theresa K. Lant
Part Two: Strategic Management of Space
·
Interorganizational Learning and the Location of
Manufacturing Subsidiaries: Is Chain
Migration also a Corporate Behavior?
Paula V. Bastos and Henrich R. Greve
·
Location Choices under Agglomeration Externalities
and Strategic Interaction
Fredrick Flyer and J. Myles Shaver
·
Geography and Marketing Strategy in Consumer Packaged
Goods
Bart J.
Bronnenberg and Paulo Albuquerque
·
Organization, Evolution and Performance in
Neighborhood-based Systems
Alessandro Lomi, Erik R. Larsen and Ann van Ackere
·
Spatial Diffusion of Social Organizing: Modeling
Trade Union Growth in
Christofer Edling and Fredrik
Liljeros
Part Three: Combined Perspectives
·
The Diffusion of TQM within a Global Bank
David Strang
·
Organizing for Technological Innovation in the
Aya S. Chacar and Marvin B.
Lieberman
·
Law Firm Office Location and Firm Survival in
Jonathan Jaffee
·
The Organizational Advantage of Nations: An
Ecological Perspective on the Evolution of the Motorcycle Industry in
Filippo
Carlo Wezel and Alessandro
Lomi
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