Nomadic Firms in a Globalizing Economy: A Comparative Analysis and Policy Perspectives

The location behaviour of modern multinational multi-plant firms appears to exhibitincreasingly a flexible mobility pattern with a strong tendency towards footlooseness. Thespatial-economic dynamics - often across the border - of such firms is sometimesencapsulated in the term 'nomadic firms'. This paper addresses the issue of nomadicbehaviour of firms against the background of globalisation trends. After a criticaldiscussion of globalisation phenomena and a review of the literature on nomadicentrepreneurial behaviour, the paper sets out to formulate a series of relevanthypotheses of spatial r... Mehr ...