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The observation that economic competition between regions is intensifying through economic globalization has become a well-worn cliché. Many scholars have debated this phenomenon as it became pronounced on a global scale during the last century. The study of multinational companies (MNCs) and industrial agglomeration are representative examples. The goal of either argument is discerning the spatial structure operating under the globalizing economy. However, their respective approaches are different: the one attempts to reveal globalization as a spatial expansion of business activities from the viewpoint of business administration; the other tries to position globalization as a structural change in local space from the viewpoint of economic geography.
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Yamamoto, K. (2012). International Production Allocation Strategies of Japanese Animation Studios. In: Schlunze, R.D., Agola, N.O., Baber, W.W. (eds) Spaces of International Economy and Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230359550_13
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