Susan Christopherson, Jennifer Clark

Remaking Regional Economies

Power, Labor, and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Regional autonomy in the global economy is a myth: regional economies and regional fortunes are shaped by a transational firm agenda to drive down costs while accessing skilled, flexible labor in and across regions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780415357432
• ISBN-10: 0415357438
• Artikelnr.: 34506353

Autorenporträt

Cornell University, New York, USA

Inhaltsangabe

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