A Critical Review of Geographic Studies of Multinational Corporations
A Critical Review of Geographic Studies of Multinational Corporations
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跨国公司地理研究的批判性评论
DOI：
10.4157/grj.78.28
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发表时间：
2005
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通讯作者：
A. Taira
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作者：
A. Taira
本文对跨国公司的地理研究进行了批判性的回顾，并提出了未来的研究议程。对跨国公司的研究出现在经济学和工商管理领域要比地理学早得多。然而，自20世纪80年代以来，地理研究的数量迅速增加。这些研究的重点已经从跨国公司的区位模式和外国直接投资的空间特征扩展到企业内部和企业间的联系、外国直接投资与区域经济的关系、跨国公司的管理方法和技术向地方的转移、跨国公司与国家和地方政府之间的权力结构。此外，虽然对制造业跨国公司的研究在数量上占据主导地位，但对在世界许多地区扩大业务的服务业跨国公司的研究正在增加。以往的研究大多是在民族国家的范围内进行的，但近年来，由于研究人员越来越关注将跨国公司嵌入一个地方的地方性，地方范围的研究数量也在增加。从现在起，有必要开展基于上述观点的研究，并积累以“企业”为基础的研究，如关于跨国公司的企业文化及其转变的研究。
This paper critically reviews geographic studies of multinational corporations and presents a future research agenda. Studies on multinational corporations appeared in the fields of economics and business administration much earlier than in geography. Since the 1980s, however, the number of geographic studies has increased rapidly. The focus of these studies has expanded from the location patterns of multinational corporations and spatial characteristics of foreign direct investment to intra- and interfirm linkages, relations between foreign direct investment and the regional economy, transfer of management methods and technology of multinational corporations to local areas, and power structures between multinational companies and state and local governments. Also, although studies on multinational corporations in the manufacturing sector have dominated the research in sheer numbers, studies focusing on the multinationals in the service sector, which have been expanding their businesses in many areas in the world, are now increasing. Most previous studies were conducted at the nation-state scale, but recently, the number of studies at the local scale has also been rising, stimulated by researchers' increasing attention to locality, which embeds multinational corporations in a place. From now, it is necessary to develop studies based on the viewpoints referred above and also to accumulate “firm”-based studies such as those dealing with the corporate culture of multinationals and its transformation.
DOI：
10.1002/tie.5060080409
发表时间：
1966-05
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The International Executive
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作者：
R. Vernon
通讯作者：
R. Vernon