As an up-to-date picture of attitudes and practices in two of the most dynamic industries in the world, "Towards Global Localization" is intended for all interested in industrial development and evolution. Focusing on the computing and communications industries, the expert team of authors have addressed the following questions: In an age of deregulation, is government or the market the stronger force for stimulating economic change? In seeking to understand economic change, what theory is most relevant? How important is location in the dramatic economic shifts taking place? As firms "go global", do they lose touch with their locales? Or, conversely, does more globalization also mean that companies value specific kinds of location more highly than others? Relating their account to both the international scene and a strong theoretical framework, the authors have focused on the contrasting economies of the UK and France; the one a laboratory for neo-market philosophy, the other still a centralized "dirigiste" state.
They conclude that as leading industries - whether US, European or Japanese - grow more globally competitive, they become more internationally collaborative and more sensitive to the advantages of certain locations. This book, with its international authorship and European focal point, will interest all concerned with industrial evolution and development in advanced economies, whether they be economists, geographers, planners or students of business.
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Höhe: 234 mm
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978-1-85728-000-5 (9781857280005)
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Associate Professor of Economics, Universite de Lille I, and Senior Researcher, IFRESI, France
School of Geography, University of Oxford
Universite de Paris VII, France
Research Fellow, University of Wales College of Cardiff Business School
Computing and communications in the UK and France - innovation, regulation and spatial dynamics - an introduction, Philip Cooke; high technology and flexibility, Olivier Weinstein; accumulation and organization in computation and communications industries - a regulationist approach, Frank Moulaert and Erik Swyngedouw; globalization and its management in computing and communications, Philip Cooke and Peter Wells; the regional patterns of computing and communications industries in the UK and France, Eric Swyngedouw, Martine Lemattre, Peter Wells; the computer hardware industry in the 1980s - technological change, competition and structural change in the UK and France, Peter Wells and Philip Cooke; the telecommunications equipment industry - the great transformation, Olivier Weinstein; services - the bridge between computing and communications, Frank Moulaert; global localization in computing and communications - conclusions, Philip Cooke.
