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In recent years an extensive range of new research has been revisiting the topic of the location of international business activities from a variety of different perspectives and background interests. This work has been inspired in part by two apparently quite different but actually related contemporary trends: on the one hand, an emergence or revitalization of clusters of activities co-located in and around selected global city regions or fast growing metropolitan areas; and on the other hand, an increased global dispersion of activities conducted within the value chains managed or coordinated by many large multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their business partners.
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Cantwell, J. (2014). Introduction. In: Cantwell, J. (eds) Location of International Business Activities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137472311_1
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