The Concept of Strategic Geographic Place in the International Business Policy of Transnational Companies

Abstract

The strategic geographical place has become the important keyword of the international business in these days. The present world economy has been formed on the basis of the national states and on the hierarchical spatial structure of the metropolitan areas and capital cities, too. In the localization of the transnational corporations the developed industrial coun- tries and the "emerging markets" of the developing countries are the strategic national states. The corporate and regional headquarters of the transnational corporations are sometimes described as the geographical "control points" of the global economy. Budapest is the third best business centre of the Europe in 2000. The networks of the e-business become organized in the virtual space, but there are many geographical places are eliminating from this.