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Fluctuating rounds of inward investment in peripheral regions: Semiconductors in the north east of England

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Stuart Dawley

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Abstract

This article extends economic geography research on foreign direct investment episodes by developing a historically grounded understanding of the socioinstitutional relations that shape and constrain different rounds of (dis)investment by multinational enterprises (MNEs) within a host region. Sensitive to the roles of contextuality, path dependency, and contingency, it argues that the temporal and spatial dynamics of volatile MNE (dis)investment are best tackled using a conceptual framework that accords a full and active role to the agency of the firm and its interrelations with the geographically variable socioinstitutional contexts that produce, regulate, and mediate investment decisions. The framework is used to interpret the brief but fluctuating history of the semiconductor fabrication industry in North Tyneside in the old industrial region of North East England, Within each investment episode, the empirical findings reveal the pivotal power and agency of the corporation in shaping and connecting processes across a variety of scales, places, and times. Contrasting corporate strategies illustrate the dynamic and contingent ways in which home and host national institutional contexts matter in mediating and regulating MNE investment decisions.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Dawley S

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Economic Geography

Year: 2007

Volume: 83

Issue: 1

Pages: 51-73

ISSN (print): 0013-0095

ISSN (electronic): 1944-8287

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1944-8287.2007.tb00333.x

DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2007.tb00333.x


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