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Location-specific Advantages

Location-Specific Advantages is a theoretical construct in international business theory that denotes the unique, non-transferable benefits derived from operating in a particular geographic market, such as access to local resources, institutional knowledge, or regional market characteristics, which collectively enable a multinational enterprise to achieve superior competitiveness in that specific location.

441

Publications

34.5K

Citations

907

Authors

520

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

109

Variants

Location Advantages

Parents

Publications

441

Clusters and the new economics of competition.

Michael E. Porter · PubMed · 1999 · 4.6K citations · Full text

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Clusters and knowledge: local buzz, global pipelines and the process of knowledge creation

Harald Bathelt, Anders Malmberg, Peter Maskell · Progress in Human Geography · 2004 · 4.4K citations · Full text

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Distance still matters. The hard reality of global expansion.

Pankaj Ghemawat · PubMed · 2001 · 1.6K citations

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The Elusive Concept of Localization Economies: Towards a Knowledge-Based Theory of Spatial Clustering

Anders Malmberg, Peter Maskell · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space · 2002 · 1.4K citations

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The New Argonauts. Regional Advantage in a Global Economy

Koen Frenken · Regional Studies · 2009 · 1.4K citations

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1–5 of 441

Authors

907

  1. RN
    Rajneesh Narula

    University of Reading, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 517 citations

    8

    h-index

  2. PM
    Peter Maskell

    Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

    6 publications · 6.4K citations

    6

    h-index

  3. LN
    Lilac Nachum

    Baruch College, United States

    4 publications · 414 citations

    4

    h-index

  4. AM
    Anders Malmberg

    Uppsala University, Sweden

    4 publications · 6.3K citations

    4

    h-index

  5. JH
    John H. Dunning

    University of Reading, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 345 citations

    3

    h-index

1–5 of 907

Institutions

520

  1. University of Reading

    Reading, United Kingdom

    11 h-index

    14 publications

    1.2K citations

  2. Copenhagen Business School

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    9 h-index

    9 publications

    6.5K citations

  3. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    8 publications

    442 citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    588 citations

  5. University of California, Irvine

    Irvine, United States

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    371 citations

  6. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

    New Brunswick, United States

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    413 citations

  7. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    322 citations

  8. Temple University

    Philadelphia, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    221 citations

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Venues

  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 18 publications · 570 citations

    15

    h-index

  2. Regional Studies

    11 publications · 2.1K citations

    11

    h-index

  3. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

    Repository · 12 publications · 714 citations

    11

    h-index

  4. European Planning Studies

    8 publications · 434 citations

    8

    h-index

  5. Journal of International Business Studies

    JIBS · 8 publications · 2.3K citations

    8

    h-index

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