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Economic Geography and the Location of TNCs: Financial and Professional Service FDI to the USA

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This paper attempts to examine theoretically and empirically the explanatory power of concepts drawn from economic geography for the explanation of the location of TNCs. It combines concepts from economic geography and international business theories in a model that seeks to explain the location of Transnational Corporations (TNCs), and tests the model on financial and professional service FDI to the US. The findings suggest a need to extend the conventional location model of international business by acknowledging the processes taking place among firms located in geographic proximity.

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*Lilach Nachum, Senior Research Fellow, Cambridge University, ESRC Centre for Business Research. She is currently leading a research project on the international competitiveness of UK- and foreign-owned financial service firms in the City of London. She is the author of The Origin of the International Competitiveness of Firms: The Impact of Ownership and Location in Professional Service Industries (Edward Elgar, 1999).

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Nachum, L. Economic Geography and the Location of TNCs: Financial and Professional Service FDI to the USA. J Int Bus Stud 31, 367–385 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8490912

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