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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Power, Labor, and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy Susan Christopherson, Jennifer Clark. Remaking. Regional ... skilled, innovative, and flexible workers – the optics and imaging industry and the film and television industry ...
... skilled and less-skilled workers who produce and distribute their products ... labor markets that conflict with some of the taken-for-granted assumptions ... skilled workforce. The capacity to strategically combine different location and ...
... skilled and creative workforce. Regions that provide all the inputs to help ... labor and finding ways to compete that will enable the firm to survive ... skilled labor. They look to regional policy as an instrumental vehicle to reduce ...
... skill knowledge-based industries indicates that the standard depiction of the newly defined role of regions in the global economy fails to capture the dynamics shaping firm behavior and its outcomes for regions and labor. It ...
... skilled labor and other production resources, we also see how their strategies and actions are defined by their access to global networks. Unlike their local suppliers of production inputs and innovations, it is easier for TNCs to ...
Contents
Case studies | 55 |
Learning regions and innovation policies | 105 |
Notes | 150 |
Bibliography | 153 |
Index | 170 |
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