International business and economic geography: knowledge, time and transactions costs
结合经济地理与国际商务视角，分析跨国公司空间行为，通过知识交易性质解释全球化与国际化中的悖论现象。
This paper sketches out how the ways in which a combination of economic geography and international business approaches can shed light on the spatial behaviour of multinational companies. The emphasis of the argument here is on the nature of the knowledge content embedded in the transactions of the firm with the surrounding environment. In order to demonstate the analytical power of these combined approaches we examine the case of an apparently pardoxical observation relating to globalization and internationalization. By adopting an economy geography-international business lens it is possible to provide a clear explanation of the observation, the result of which is that paradox disappears.