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Locational challenges and opportunities for SMEs in border regions

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  • Teemu Makkonen
  • Birgit Leick

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The present paper explores the unresolved issue in regional planning of whether small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) benefit from being located in border regions in terms of cross-border cooperation opportunities and cross-border externalities. By systematically reviewing the existing literature on the topic with the help of a mapping review, it suggests the following answer: SMEs in border regions do benefit from cross-border cooperation opportunities. However, there is no strong empirical support of a prevalence of positive cross-border externalities. Rather, the review finds that SMEs in border regions are influenced by negative cross-border externalities. Since the results do not point in a clear-cut direction, given their high degree of context-specificity, we claim that further studies on the topic are necessary to combine the established knowledge on SME-based entrepreneurship with planning theories and concepts taken from the literature on borders, border asymmetries and border regions.

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  • Teemu Makkonen & Birgit Leick, 2020. "Locational challenges and opportunities for SMEs in border regions," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(10), pages 2078-2098, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:28:y:2020:i:10:p:2078-2098
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2019.1705765
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