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Regional Business Systems and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment in Canada, Spain and the UK
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posted on 2017-11-23, 11:59 authored by Maria C. Gonzalez, Phil Almond, Gregor MurrayThis paper examines how governance actors in regional business systems engage with foreign-owned multinational corporations which are present within their territory, in attempts to retain investment and link their regions to global production networks. This is done through a qualitative analysis of policy and practice in six sub-national regions in three advanced industrialized economies (Canada, Spain and the UK), thus permitting both international and intra-national comparisons. We find that while there are broad similarities in the types of governance mechanisms used, there are notable differences in the extent and intensity of forms of market, state and associational governance of foreign direct investment. These differences partly correspond to broader institutional differences in the nature of business systems, and partly to the socio-political construction of sub-national governance space.
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This research was funded by the ESRC (RES-062-23-1886) and a Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (2010-2013), Research Grant, "Multinational corporations, intermediate governance and human resources"
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- Loughborough University London
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Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (REIS)Citation
GONZALEZ, M.C., ALMOND, P. and MURRAY, G., 2018. Regional Business Systems and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment in Canada, Spain and the UK. Revista Espanola de Investigaciones Sociologicas (REIS), 163: pp. 3-20.Publisher
Center for Sociological Research (Centro de Investigaciones Sociologicas - CIS)Version
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2017-11-22Publication date
2018Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Revista Espanola de Investigaciones Sociologicas (REIS) and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.5477/cis/reis.163.3ISSN
0210-5233eISSN
1988-5903Publisher version
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