Valuable resources often exist at distant points from a firm’s current locations, so that strategic decisions such as growth have a spatial dimension in which firms seek information and choose between geographically distributed alternatives. Studies show that geographic proximity facilitates the flow of resources, but there is limited understanding of factors that exacerbate or ease the impact ...

as an applied research, this study has used structural equations to examine the relationship between networkability, organizational learning and open innovation in order to assess the significance of relationships between variables in smes in the province of tehran. the statistical community of this study is the managers of smes in the province of tehran, but because of the vast geographical ar...

We suggest that the proximity of a country to other countries is a factor that affects its choice as an MNE location. We introduce the concept of a country’s proximity to the global distribution of knowledge, markets and resources, and frame this concept as a function of both geographic distance and the worldwide spatial distribution of these factors. We test our location model on a dataset com...

In this position paper we discuss the role of geographical metaphors as tools for representing, organizing and accessing heterogeneous shared information, typical of the Web 2.0. Metaphors represent concepts and relations of a knowledge domain with symbols taken from another domain, usually simpler and more immediate to understand. The paper discusses issues related to the use of metaphorical c...