Remaking Regional Economies: Power, Labor, and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge EconomySince the early 1980s, the region has been central to thinking about the emerging character of the global economy. In fields as diverse as business management, industrial relations, economic geography, sociology, and planning, the regional scale has emerged as an organizing concept for interpretations of economic change. This book is both a critique of the "new regionalism" and a return to the "regional question," including all of its concerns with equity and uneven development. It will challenge researchers and students to consider the region as a central scale of action in the global economy. At the core of the book are case studies of two industries that rely on skilled, innovative, and flexible workers - the optics and imaging industry and the film and television industry. Combined with this is a discussion of the regions that constitute their production centers. The authors’ intensive research on photonics and entertainment media firms, both large and small, leads them to question some basic assumptions behind the new regionalism and to develop an alternative framework for understanding regional economic development policy. Finally, there is a re-examination of what the regional question means for the concept of the learning region. This book draws on the rich contemporary literature on the region but also addresses theoretical questions that preceded "the new regionalism." It will contribute to teaching and research in a range of social science disciplines. |
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... Regional. Economies. Since the early 1980s, the region has been central to thinking about the emerging ... development. It will challenge researchers and students to consider the ... Economic Geography The Routledge Studies in Economic.
... region, New York, 1997–2003 8.1 Economic development packages for firm location and expansion, 1998–2004 48 49 61 62 63 63 66 95 60 68 70 72 76 142 Preface Were it part of our everyday education and comment Illustrations.
... regional economic development in the United States attracts a small group of academics and researchers and fewer still who engage in the time consuming and expensive empirical work required to gain a nuanced understanding of regional ...
... economic development policy without understanding national governance systems as they interact with local and regional history, politics, and power relations. Although we anticipate that our project has implications for the regional ...
... regional fragmentation and its corrosive consequences for the citizens of metropolitan regions (Dreier et al. 2001). At the same time, however, regionally focused economic development policy, “the new regionalism,” has addressed ...
Contents
Case studies | 55 |
Learning regions and innovation policies | 105 |
Notes | 150 |
Bibliography | 153 |
Index | 170 |
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