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| Author | : Päivi Oinas |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2017-09-29 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1351908030 |
Bringing together a wide range of empirical studies from around the world (Sweden, Norway, Austria, Germany, France, UK, Israel, Russia, China, Taiwan, Argentina, Canada), framed in related contemporary theoretical frameworks, this book examines the question of the significance of proximate vs. more distant relationships for economic agents' performance and local economic development. While this question has been the subject of intense debates in recent years, it is obvious that proximity and distance are not explanatory factors as such. The book argues for the need to understand the aims of economic relationships, the nature of the regional environment in which they originate, and the scale at which they operate. The book suggests that the notions of diversity, innovativeness, maturity and multiple scales should be incorporated into the debates on the significance of proximity for economic performance.
| Author | : Pamela Hinds |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 508 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780262083058 |
Multidisciplinary research on dynamics, problems, and potential of distributed work.
| Author | : Michael Taylor |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2006-12-21 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0191514624 |
Firms are at the very heart of modern day life. They come in a seemingly infinite variety - from transnationals to small firm, from corporations to branch plants, to subsidiaries and joint ventures, from subcontractors to franchisees, from sole proprietorships to partnerships, from manufacturers to service providers and retailers. For the most part we view them as the creators, destroyers, and repositories of jobs - the creators and destroyers of people's livelihoods, lives, and dreams. But, deciding just what a firm is is neither a simple nor a straightforward task. Against a background of the dynamic complexity and plurality that business forms (and firms) can assume, there is a constant search within academic research for the processes that create and maintain both enterprise and enterprises in capitalist societies: a search for a theory of the firm. This book addresses some of the gaps in the current state of the theory of the firm from an economic geography perspective: issues around the boundaries of the firm; the collective agency of the firm; the political firm, financial markets, and the state; and the firm in place.
| Author | : Neil Adams |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 489 |
| Release | : 2012-08-06 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1136909508 |
This book examines some of the evolving challenges faced by EU regional policy in light of enlargement and to assess some of the approaches and trends in terms of territorial development policy and practice that are emerging out of this process. Focusing on the experiences on Central and Eastern Europe, these chapters reflect on the diversity of approaches to spatial planning and the the politics of policy formation and multi-level governance operations – from local to trans-national agendas. Promoting increased awareness and understanding of these issues is the main purpose of the book, as well as harnessing the extensive capacity and ‘knowledge’ within these countries that can greatly enrich the discourse within an enlarged ‘epistemic community’ of European spatial planning academics, practitioners and policy-makers. The recently acquired CEE dimension provides a unique opportunity to examine the evolution of existing ‘epistemic communities’ as well as to explore the potential emergence of new ones..
| Author | : Neal, Zachary P. |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 672 |
| Release | : 2021-07-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 178811471X |
This Handbook of Cities and Networks provides a cutting-edge overview of research on how economic, social and transportation networks affect processes both in and between cities. Exploring the ways in which cities connect and intertwine, it offers a varied set of collaborations, highlighting different theoretical, historical and methodological perspectives.
| Author | : Agnieszka Olechnicka |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 373 |
| Release | : 2018-10-08 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1315471914 |
Science is increasingly defined by multidimensional collaborative networks. Despite the unprecedented growth of scientific collaboration around the globe – the collaborative turn – geography still matters for the cognitive enterprise. This book explores how geography conditions scientific collaboration and how collaboration affects the spatiality of science. This book offers a complex analysis of the spatial aspects of scientific collaboration, addressing the topic at a number of levels: individual, organizational, urban, regional, national, and international. Spatial patterns of scientific collaboration are analysed along with their determinants and consequences. By combining a vast array of approaches, concepts, and methodologies, the volume offers a comprehensive theoretical framework for the geography of scientific collaboration. The examples of scientific collaboration policy discussed in the book are taken from the European Union, the United States, and China. Through a number of case studies the authors analyse the background, development and evaluation of these policies. This book will be of interest to researchers in diverse disciplines such as regional studies, scientometrics, R&D policy, socio-economic geography and network analysis. It will also be of interest to policymakers, and to managers of research organisations.
| Author | : Andrew J. Dennis |
| Publisher | : CABI |
| Total Pages | : 704 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1845931661 |
Fresh concepts in the study of seed dispersal are spurring a host of exciting new questions, new answers to old questions, new methods and approaches, and a reinvigoration of the field.Seed Dispersal: Theory and its Application in a Changing World presents both recent advances and reviews of current knowledge demonstrating the vigour and vibrancy of the field. It provides new perspectives and directions at a time when efforts to meet growing environmental challenges threatening natural systems are of utmost importance.
| Author | : John W. Goodrich-Mahoney |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Total Pages | : 873 |
| Release | : 2011-08-11 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0080557694 |
The management of rights-of-way by electric and telephone utilities, highway departments, gas pipeline companies, and railroads around the world is guided and constrained by policies and regulations to protect the environment. Companies that manage rights-of-way are required to comply with these regulations, and are seeking the most cost-effective management practices that, at the same time, demonstrate stewardship of the environment. Protection of biodiversity and sustainable development are especially important as national goals in many countries, and rights-of-way managers are seeking practical ways to include public participation in their operations. * Addresses environmental issues in rights-of-way planning and management * Provides a forum for information exchange among various agencies, industries, environmental consultants, and academic organizations * Presents peer-reviewed papers to help achieve a better understanding of current environmental issues involved in rights-of-way management
| Author | : Thomas Afflerbach |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2019-11-25 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 3030343006 |
This book focuses on virtual teams, which are fraught with cooperation problems. It offers novel insights into how team members experience and overcome these problems by empirically studying hybrid virtual teams in Shared Services Organizations. It firstly enhances the reader’s understanding of contextual challenges relating to cooperation and shows how members of such teams experience faultlines through distance, disconnection through reliance on communication technology and discontinuity through temporality of team composition. Secondly, it explores how they use 22 practices to overcome the cooperation problem, which can be categorized as strategies of identity constructing, trusting and virtual peer monitoring. Lastly, the study analyzes the role of technology, demonstrating that state-of-the-art media can facilitate, but not ensure the use of these strategies and practices. As such, the book has implications for both researchers and practitioners.
| Author | : Panayiotis Zaphiris |
| Publisher | : IGI Global |
| Total Pages | : 2824 |
| Release | : 2008-10-01 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1605660523 |
"This reference book penetrates the human computer interaction (HCI) field a wide variety of comprehensive research papers aimed at expanding the knowledge of HCI"--Provided by publisher.
