Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Professor Emeritus of the Economics of Technological Change, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University and Professor Emeritus of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, Andreas P. Cornett, Professor, Department of Business and Economics, University of Southern Denmark and Tina Wallin, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Sweden

• Contents:1. Globalization, international spillovers and sectoral changes: an introductionCharlie Karlsson, Andreas P. Cornett and Tina WallinPart I General aspects of globalization2. Does Culture Matter? The Role of Board Efficacy, Growth and Competitiveness in Western and Asian Corporate GovernanceOssi Pesämaa and Martin Svensson3. The impact of technology spillovers and international knowledge flows on the productivity and innovativeness of UK multinationalsGary Cook, Yevgeniya Shevtsova and Hans Lööf4. How does distance determine multinational location choice? A literature reviewTrudy-Ann StonePart II Sector-specific transformations5. Yanagiya: One of the Best Practice Manufacturing SMEs in JapanMakoto Hirano, Mitsuhiro Kurashige and Kiyonori Sakakibara6. ICT as a driver of innovation: a life cycle approachOla OlssonPart III Implications for regions in general7. Knowledge-based Strategies and Sources of Growth in Small and Medium-sized Cities: A lesson from the literatureAmjad Naveed8. Location, Location, Location: Place-Specific Human Capital, Rural Firm Entry and Firm Survival Georgeanne M. Artz, Zizhen Guo, and Peter F. Orazem9. Succeeding Generations, Changing Trajectories: Influences of Generational Transition on Local Development ExperiencesOzan Hovardaoğlu10. The Swedish commuting pattern: A gravity model of commuting, with housing-expenditure and income constraints Michael OlssonPart IV Implications for cross-border regions 11. Employment and economic activity in different Swedish border regionsTobias Arvemo and Urban Gråsjö12. Identifying potential human capital creation within the Cross-Border Institutional Thickness model in the Rhine-Waal Region Nino Javakhishvili-Larsen, Andreas P. Cornett, and Martin KlattIndex