Research on Headquarter Relocation of Private Enterprise from the Perspective of Network Embeddedness

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This article reviews the headquarter relocation theory and the network embeddedness theory, providing an initial understanding of headquarter relocation from the perspective of network embeddedness. The network embedding feature that has impact on private enterprise headquarter relocation is analyzed, including the relation embeddedness feature, as well as the structure embeddedness feature. After that, the research model of the relationship between network embeddedness and private enterprise headquarter relocation is built, and it shows that private enterprise headquarter relocation decision is a result of the interaction of relation embeddedness feature and structure embeddedness feature.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 452-453)

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945-949

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January 2012

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