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. Economies. Since the early 1980s, the region has been central to thinking about the emerging character of the global ...
... economic power of the transnational firm shapes regions and regional competition. While firms describe themselves as global actors, the region plays an important role in their calculus, not just as a production site but as a set of ...
... 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 ...
... economic development policy is that firms make a choice between “high road” and “low road” strategies as they respond to changing global production and consumption markets. In part, this idea stems from an interpretation of ...
... world, fostered by trade liberalization and deregulation, firms are price-takers and so getting the prices right is the single most important objective for firms wishing to become competitive players in the global economy. The role of ...
Contents
Labor markets and the regional project | |
The evolution of the optics and imaging industry | |
media concentration and spatial competition | |
why regional innovation systems produce | |
The learning region disconnect | |
considering scale and combining investment | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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