This book focuses on the dialectics between spatio-organisational gaps and local contexts that characterise cross-border investments. -Interspatial- investments - be it mergers & acquisitions (M&A) or greenfield investments - are usually characterised by what is referred to as -otherness-, i.e. organisational and cultural distances of the firms involved in relation to their regional contexts.

At the same time, economic, political and socio-cultural linkages are decisive for attracting cross-border investments to regions and for providing firms with conditions supportive of...