The global economic system has become increasingly borderless in recent years due to the advanced transportation and communication technologies characteristic of the "Information Society." The organization of firms has likewise developed within these global networks. The local agglomeration of...

The emergence, from the 1960s on, of a new spatial division of labor – with the old task-based division of labor within a firm taking on a spatial dimension, and comparative advantage increasingly shaping patterns of specialization by function/process as well as by sector/product – reflected...