Remaking regional economies: power, labor, and firm strategies in the knowledge economy / by Susan Christopherson and Jennifer Clark

By:

Christopherson, Susa

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: routledge studies in economic geographyPublication details: Routledge, 2009. Oxon:Description: xi,:176pISBN:

9780415551281

Subject(s):

Regional economics

DDC classification:

338.064 CHR-R

Contents:

Section 1: Shaping the Regional Project -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Firm Strategies: Resources, Context, and Territory -- 3. Labor Markets and the Regional Project -- Section 2: Case Studies -- 4. The Evolution of the Optics and Imaging Industry -- 5. Runaway Production: Media Concentration and Spatial Competition -- Section 3: Learning Regions and Innovation Policies -- 6. The Paradox of Innovation: Why Regional Innovation Systems Produce so Little Innovation (and so Few Jobs) -- 7. The Learning Region Disconnect -- 8. Remaking Regions: Considering Scale and Combining Investment and Distribution

Summary: Since the early 1980s, the region has been central to thinking about the character of the global economy. This book offers a critique of the 'new regionalism' and covers the 'regional question', including its concerns with equity and uneven development. It challenges to consider the region as a central scale of action in the global economy.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Library, SPAB F-1	Non Fiction	338.064 CHR-R (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		006749

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Section 1: Shaping the Regional Project --
1. Introduction --
2. Firm Strategies: Resources, Context, and Territory --
3. Labor Markets and the Regional Project --
Section 2: Case Studies --
4. The Evolution of the Optics and Imaging Industry --
5. Runaway Production: Media Concentration and Spatial Competition --
Section 3: Learning Regions and Innovation Policies --
6. The Paradox of Innovation: Why Regional Innovation Systems Produce so Little Innovation (and so Few Jobs) --
7. The Learning Region Disconnect --
8. Remaking Regions: Considering Scale and Combining Investment and Distribution

Since the early 1980s, the region has been central to thinking about the character of the global economy. This book offers a critique of the 'new regionalism' and covers the 'regional question', including its concerns with equity and uneven development. It challenges to consider the region as a central scale of action in the global economy.

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