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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... region disconnect 8. Remaking regions: considering scale and combining investment and redistribution Notes Bibliography Index Illustrations Figures 3.1 Agglomeration diseconomies and regional competition 3.2 Agglomeration.
... regional competition 3.2 Agglomeration diseconomies and regional restructuring 4.1 Rochester photonics survey: location of customers and suppliers of SMEs 4.2 Rochester photonics survey: customers of SMEs 4.3 Rochester photonics survey ...
... regional competition and transnational corporations, work organization and locational choice, this book is about power. In particular, this book is about how the political economic power of the transnational firm shapes regions and regional ...
... competition among firms. Within this explanatory framework, the achievement of a more protected status in the global economy requires active regional policy. According to the new regionalist narrative, regional policy-makers must create ...
... competition. In achieving the goal of sustainable competitive advantage, regions are important but, again, in relation to strategies and as a means to an end. In our industry cases, TNC managers lobby the region to provide ...
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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