Firm Mobility and Organizational Networks: Innovation, Embeddedness and Economic Geography

Joris Knoben illustrates that the number of firm relocations has grown steadily and considerably over the last decade and, at the same time, relationships between organizations have become more important to firm performance. It is often argued that these relationships require geographical stability, and so the author explores how these two seemingly contradictory observations can be reconciled.

Insights from economic geography and organization science are utilized to develop a multidiscipli...