Globalization, international spillovers and sectoral changes : implications for regions and industries

Contents: 1. Introduction: setting the stage; identifying the major drivers of globalization / Charlie Karlsson, Andreas P. Cornett and Tina Wallin -- Part I: General aspects of globalization -- 2. Does culture matter? The role of board efficacy, growth and competitiveness in Western and Asian Corporate Governance / Ossi Pesämaa and Martin Svensson -- 3. The impact of technology spillovers and international knowledge flows on the productivity and innovativeness of UK multinationals / Gary Cook, Yevgeniya Shevtsova and Hans Lööf -- 4. How does distance determine multinational location choice? A literature review / Trudy-Ann Stone -- Part II: Sector-specific transformations -- 5. Yanagiya: One of the best practice manufacturing SMEs in Japan / Makoto Hirano, Mitsuhiro Kurashige and Kiyonori Sakakibara -- 6. ICT as a driver of innovation : a life cycle approach / Ola Olsson -- Part III: Implications for regions in general -- 7. Knowledge-based strategies and sources of growth in small and medium-sized cities: a lesson from the literature / Amjad Naveed -- 8. Location, location, location: place-specific human capital, rural firm entry and firm survival / Georgeanne M. Artz, Zizhen Guo, and Peter F. Orazem -- 9. Succeeding generations, changing trajectories : influences of generational transition on local development experiences / Ozan Hovardaoǧlu -- 10. The Swedish commuting pattern : a gravity model of commuting, with housing-expenditure and income constraints / Michael Olsson -- Part IV: Implications for cross-border regions -- 11. Employment and economic activity in different Swedish border regions / Tobias Arvemo and Urban Gråsjö -- 12. Identifying potential human capital creation within the cross-border institutional thickness model in the Rhine-Waal Region / Nino Javakhishvili-Larsen, Andreas P. Cornett, and Martin Klatt -- Index.