Susan Christopherson, Jennifer Clark

Remaking Regional Economies

Power, Labor, and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy

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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: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780415357432
• ISBN-10: 0415357438
• Artikelnr.: 34506353

Autorenporträt

Susan Christopherson is professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University. Jennifer Clark is an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology.

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