
Remaking Regional Economies
Power, Labor, and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 4. October 2007
Book
Hardback
190 pages
978-0-415-35743-2 (ISBN)
Article exhausted; check different version
Description
Since 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.
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.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Illustrations
8 s/w Abbildungen, 6 s/w Tabellen, 8 s/w Zeichnungen
6 Tables, black and white; 8 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
520 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-35743-2 (9780415357432)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Susan Christopherson | Jennifer Clark
Remaking Regional Economies
Power, Labor, and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy
Book
01/2016
1st Edition
Routledge
€76.94
Article exhausted; check different version
Persons
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.
Jennifer Clark is an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Author
Cornell University, New York, USA
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Content
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