Recent research finds that firms investing abroad tend to agglomerate with other foreign entrants. Yet firms often invest multiple times within the same host country, which raises the question of whether firms agglomerate with their competitors' or their own prior investments. Collocation's...

A key strategic choice for multinational firms is where to locate. When investing abroad, firms may find collocating with their own and competitors' prior investments beneficial. Such agglomeration may provide knowledge and infrastructure spillovers. Yet, as a firm invests sequentially, its past...

The emergence of a giant cluster, in which bits and pieces of otherwise unconnected parts of a system come together, has been extensively studied in nonsocial contexts. This phenomenon has attracted substantial attention because it allows researchers to understand and predict the collective...