PHELPS N. A., MACKINNON D., STONE I. and BRAIDFORD P. (2003) Embedding the multinationals? Institutions and the development of overseas manufacturing affiliates in Wales and North East England, Reg. Studies 37 , 27-40. The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) upon host regions is a topic of...

Objectives: Business transfers are posing a particular problem for several European countries as the age distribution of business owners rises and as the number of firms transferred within families’ declines. This paper explores firm, market, and regional differences in firms which are...

Many of the programmes and initiatives to regenerate deprived neighbourhoods appear to have had limited lasting impact. It has been argued that one reason for this is that we still have little real understanding of the nature and scale of the problems some communities face (Bernt, 2009). This...

A unique data set is used to provide a detailed examination of the survival of newly established manufacturing firms in north-east England. Using data on 781 firms established between 1973 and 2001, log-logistic hazard models are estimated separately for (i) micro-enterprises and (ii) small and...

Urban Tourism: Performance and Strategies in Eight European Cities, L. Van DEN Berg, J. Van DEN Borg and J. Van DER Meer, Avebury, Aldershot (1995). x+226 pp. £32.50 (hbk). ISBN 1 85972 152 4. Post-Fordism: A Reader, A. Amin (Ed), Blackwell, Oxford (1994). ix+435 pp. £13.99 (pbk). ISBN 0631...

In this paper we suggest that some elements of the observed urban-rural shift in firm formation and growth may centre on the phenomenon of 'borrowed size'. In doing so, we make a link between literature on the geography of small firm formation and growth, the theory of agglomeration and the...

Today’s world economy has been likened to a mosaic of interconnected regions or islands of economic development. Be they successful ‘industrial districts’ or less successful, less sustainable and equitable enclaves of multinational enterprise-led development, such islands of...

Phelps N. A. Cluster or capture? Manufacturing foreign direct investment, external economies and agglomeration, Regional Studies. This paper reviews the nature and significance of external economies associated with multinational enterprise (MNE) participation in the manufacturing industries of...

The paper revises, based on recent literature, whether EU MNCs develop technology spillover that have a positive impact on Mexican economy. Surveyed and interviewed authorities from relevant governmental and private institutions confirmed Dunning’s findings (1997), pointing to the fact that...

TEWDWR-JONES M. and PHELPS N. A. (2000) Levelling the uneven playing field: inward investment, interregional rivalry and the planning system, Reg. Studies 34 , 429-440. Concern has been mounting recently over the increasing intensity of competition among British regions for foreign direct...