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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... Rather than emphasizing any particular sub-field of economic geography, we seek to publish work across the breadth of the field and from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Published: Economic Geography: Past ...
... (rather than those of the network as a whole), so do firms. Networks can and frequently do take the form of hierarchies, with marginal benefit to the less powerful members. A second important characteristic of networks is their ...
... than when he wrote about it in Lean and Mean. Harrison's insights about the continued power of large corporations in shaping and re-shaping labor markets and ... Rather than dwindling away, concentrated economic power is changing its.
... Rather than dwindling away, concentrated economic power is changing its shape, as the big firms create all manner of networks, alliances, shortand long-term financial and technology deals – with one another, with government at all ...
... rather than innovative capacity. For example, studies in emerging economies, such as those in Eastern Europe, India, and Turkey, with a supply of labor skilled in engineering and computer sciences, show that TNCs distinguish between the ...
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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