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The Corporate Firm In A Spatial Context / Piet Pellenbarg And Egbert Wever -- Networks Of Firms In Flanders, Belgium: Characteristics And Territorial Impacts / Dominique Vanneste And Peter Cabus -- Global Production And Trade Systems: The Volvo Case / Inge Ivarsson And Claes Alvstam -- The Organization Of The Production Process: The Case Of Smartville / Peter Dörrenbächer And Christian Schulz -- Internal Venturing: Sponsored Corporate Spin-offs In Sweden / Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand And Martin W. Wallin -- Becoming A Global Player: Ing Real Estate / Ed Nozeman -- The Industrial Structure And Location Behavior Of The Us, European, And Asian Semiconductor Industries / Tomokazu Arita And Philip Mccann -- Globalization Of A Potato Starch Co-operative: The Case Of Avebe / Dirk Strijker -- Philips: A Global Electronics Firm Restructuring Its Home Base / Oedzge Atzema, Egbert Wever And Marloes Krol -- Product Upgrading And Survival: The Case Of Vw Navarra / Martina Fuchs -- The Demise Of A Local Champion: Macmillan Bloedel's Acquisition By Weyerhaeuser / Roger Hayter -- Glaxosmithkline: Regional And Local Networking In A Post-communist Economy / Tadeus Stryjakiewicz -- Epilogue: A Relational Perspective / Peter Dicken. Edited By Piet Pellenbarg And Egbert Wever. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.