When do firms choose global cities as foreign investment locations within countries? The roles of contextual distance, knowledge intensity, and target-country experience

Rene Belderbos; Helen S. Du; Arjen Slangen

doi:10.1016/j.jwb.2019.101022

When do firms choose global cities as foreign investment locations within countries? The roles of contextual distance, knowledge intensity, and target-country experience

Rene Belderbos, Helen S. Du^*, Arjen Slangen

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Original language	English
Article number	101022
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of World Business
Volume	55
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2019.101022
Publication status	Published - Jan 2020

Keywords

Contextual distance
Global cities
Knowledge-intensive activities
Liability of foreignness
Location decisions
Target-country experience
RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT
JAPANESE MULTINATIONAL-CORPORATIONS
CULTURAL DISTANCE
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
HOST-COUNTRY
CHOICE
ENTRY
IMPACT
CITY
HEADQUARTERS

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Belderbos, R., Du, H. S., & Slangen, A. (2020). When do firms choose global cities as foreign investment locations within countries? The roles of contextual distance, knowledge intensity, and target-country experience. Journal of World Business, 55(1), [101022]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2019.101022

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