Case Studies of Corporate Firms
Contents
List of illustrations List of contributors Preface 1 The corporate firm in a spatial context
PIET PELLENBARG AND EGBERT WEVER
ix xiii xv 1
2 Networks of firms in Flanders, Belgium: characteristics and territorial impacts
DOMINIQUE VANNESTE AND PETER CABUS
23 61
3 Global production and trade systems: the Volvo case
INGE IVARSSON AND CLAES G. ALVSTAM
4 The organization of the production process: the case of Smartville
H. PETER DÖRRENBÄCHER AND CHRISTIAN SCHULZ
83
5 Internal venturing: sponsored corporate spin-offs in Sweden
ÅSA LINDHOLM DAHLSTRAND AND MARTIN W. WALLIN
97 117
6 Becoming a global player: ING Real Estate
ED NOZEMAN
7 The industrial structure and location behavior of the US, European, and Asian semiconductor industries
TOMOKAZU ARITA AND PHILIP McCANN
139
8 Globalization of a potato starch co-operative: the case of AVEBE
DIRK STRIJKER
169
viii
Contents
9 Philips: a global electronics firm restructuring its home base
OEDZGE ATZEMA, EGBERT WEVER AND MARLOES KROL
186
10 Product upgrading and survival: the case of VW Navarra
MARTINA FUCHS
216
11 The demise of a local champion: MacMillan Bloedel’s acquisition by Weyerhaeuser
ROGER HAYTER
234
12 GlaxoSmithKline: regional and local networking in a post-communist economy
TADEUSZ STRYJAKIEWICZ
260
13 Epilogue: a relational perspective
PETER DICKEN
276
Index
284
Illustrations
Figures
1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 3.1 3.2 4.1 4.2a 4.2b 4.3 The flight of car manufacturing to Eastern Europe Håkanson’s model of the spatial evolution of firms The product life-cycle model Models of spatial organization of TNC production The structure of this book The federal structure of Belgium The surveys’ analytical framework Location of suppliers Location of the core player versus location/origin of the supplier Location of the core player versus the extent of the suppliers’ market
List of illustrations List of contributors Preface 1 The corporate firm in a spatial context
PIET PELLENBARG AND EGBERT WEVER
ix xiii xv 1
2 Networks of firms in Flanders, Belgium: characteristics and territorial impacts
DOMINIQUE VANNESTE AND PETER CABUS
23 61
3 Global production and trade systems: the Volvo case
INGE IVARSSON AND CLAES G. ALVSTAM
4 The organization of the production process: the case of Smartville
H. PETER DÖRRENBÄCHER AND CHRISTIAN SCHULZ
83
5 Internal venturing: sponsored corporate spin-offs in Sweden
ÅSA LINDHOLM DAHLSTRAND AND MARTIN W. WALLIN
97 117
6 Becoming a global player: ING Real Estate
ED NOZEMAN
7 The industrial structure and location behavior of the US, European, and Asian semiconductor industries
TOMOKAZU ARITA AND PHILIP McCANN
139
8 Globalization of a potato starch co-operative: the case of AVEBE
DIRK STRIJKER
169
viii
Contents
9 Philips: a global electronics firm restructuring its home base
OEDZGE ATZEMA, EGBERT WEVER AND MARLOES KROL
186
10 Product upgrading and survival: the case of VW Navarra
MARTINA FUCHS
216
11 The demise of a local champion: MacMillan Bloedel’s acquisition by Weyerhaeuser
ROGER HAYTER
234
12 GlaxoSmithKline: regional and local networking in a post-communist economy
TADEUSZ STRYJAKIEWICZ
260
13 Epilogue: a relational perspective
PETER DICKEN
276
Index
284
Illustrations
Figures
1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 3.1 3.2 4.1 4.2a 4.2b 4.3 The flight of car manufacturing to Eastern Europe Håkanson’s model of the spatial evolution of firms The product life-cycle model Models of spatial organization of TNC production The structure of this book The federal structure of Belgium The surveys’ analytical framework Location of suppliers Location of the core player versus location/origin of the supplier Location of the core player versus the extent of the suppliers’ market
References: Peter Dicken At almost exactly the same moment as the first edition of this book was published, Richard Walker composed a “requiem for corporate geography” (Walker 1989) Notes 1 In this chapter, I draw specifically on materials in Dicken (2000, 2003, 2005, 2007), Dicken et al