The Geographic Distance of Relocation Search: An Extended Resource-Based Perspective

Economic Geography

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 371-392

  Knoben, Joris ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agglomeration effects; Distance; Embeddedness; Geographic proximity; Interorganizational relations; Relocation; Resource based view

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; COMPETITIVENESS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; RELOCATION;

EID: 80052803040     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: 19448287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2011.01123.x     Document Type: Article

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