ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the competitiveness of location in the fields of International Business (IB) and Economic Geography by investigating few interlinked features, highlighting the theoretical and empirical developments of both schools on this matter. Interlinked features include multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the competitiveness of the host country location as an attractiveness factor; MNEs and the competitiveness of the home country location as an enhancer of competitive advantages. It also includes MNEs' internal and external networks, implying interconnection between the assets of host and home countries; the spillover effects of MNEs on the competitiveness of their host and home countries. The assessment of MNE spillovers on host and home countries' competitiveness offers another field of the IB literature that has a direct link with Economic Geography patterns. This issue has been developed within the broad question related to the overall impact of MNEs.
