Relocation of Economic Activity (eBook, PDF)

Contemporary Theory and Practice in Local, Regional and Global Perspectives
Redaktion: Capik, Pawel; Dej, Magdalena

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 189
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319922829
• Artikelnr.: 53728400

Autorenporträt

Dr Pawel Capik lectures in international business at Keele University (UK). His research explores interdependencies between international business strategies and operations and regional development theory and practice, particularly in the context of emerging and transition economies. Pawe¿'s research areas include inward investment attraction and place marketing, sourcing and shoring strategies, large and small firms' internationalization and location motivations and their impacts on regional and local economies. ¿ Dr Magdalena Dej is a geography researcher at the National Institute for Spatial Policy and Housing (Poland). She received her PhD from Jagiellonian Univeristy and specializes in economic local and regional development, particularly the development of rural areas. She authored and coauthored several books, numerous reports and research papers on the impacts of large companies on local communities as well as on rural areas and their relationship with major metropolitan areas and labor markets. Magdalena led and participated in several international research projects financed by the European Union Interreg IVC, International Visegrad Fund, Polish-German Foundation for Science and National Science Centre, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction (Dej).- Part I. Industries in Global Space.- Chapter 2. Between Location, Persistence and Relocation - Historical and Spatial Trajectories of Polish Aviation Industry (Suwala).- Chapter 3. Relocation of Automotive Industry in Brazil and Mexico: Between Corporate Strategies and Local Polices (Wójtowicz).- Chapter 4. Changing Dynamics in the Cross-Border Production Networks of Transnational Corporations: Relocation of Hong Kong and Taiwanese Manufacturing in Mainland China (Yang).- Part II: Firm Relocation Factors.- Chapter 5. Relocation of Economic Activity within Metropolitan Areas in Poland - Scale and Drivers (Dej).- Identifying Factors Driving Firm Location and Relocation: The Case of Ticino (Rossi).- Chapter 6. How Does the Current Economic Crisis Affect Firm Relocation? A Comparative Analysis of Pre- and Post-crisis Firm Movements from Greece to Bulgaria (Kapitsinis).- Chapter 7. Labour Cost Structure as a Factor in Industrial Production Relocation within the European Union (Wiedermann).- Part III: Impacts and Consequences.- Chapter 8. Relocation of Firms: Quantitative and Qualitative Consequences for the Labour Market (Maluszynska).- Chapter 9. Firm Mobility: Residential Migration in Disguise (Koster).- Chapter 10. Relocation of Economic Activities and Creation of Spatial Conflicts in a Metropolitan Region: The Case of Lódz (Dmochowska-Dudek).- Chapter 11. The Location of Industry as a Way to Achieve Balanced Development: Example of Middle Povardarie in The Republic Of Macedonia (Toshevska).- Chapter 12. Conclusions: Relocation Factors and Consequences - Towards a Multidisciplinary Research Agenda (Capik).