The Dynamics of Economic Space: The Dynamics of Economic Space
Knowledge-Based Services, Internationalization and Regional Development
1st Edition
Edited
By James W. Harrington, Peter Daniels
March 29, 2017
The acquisition and management of information is central to the operation and marketing of many service-providing firms and other organizations. Their varied knowledge requirements influence approaches to organizational structure, relationships to other organizations, the location of operations, ...
Politics of Forests: Northern Forest-industrial Regimes in the Age of Globalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Ari Aukusti Lehtinen, Jakob Donner-Amnell
November 28, 2016
Bringing together case studies from Canada, the Nordic countries and Russia, this book is the first to provide a comparative examination of the current transformations in the forest industry regimes and the challenges they make for the communities dependent on this industry. Questioning how ...
Agri-Food Commodity Chains and Globalising Networks
1st Edition
Edited
By Christina Stringer, Richard Le Heron
November 10, 2016
Within the international agri-food community at least four theoretical targets are attracting increasing attention. They are: (1) the established notions of networks and commodity chains that are being revisited by way of critical engagement informed by the insights of in-depth empirical work, (2) ...
Regional Resilience, Economy and Society: Globalising Rural Places
1st Edition
By Christine Tamásy, Javier Revilla Diez
October 19, 2016
There has been a great deal of restructuring of rural places and communities under globalisation, highlighting the interaction of local and global actors to produce new hybrid socio-economic relations. Recent research highlights the heterogeneity of globalisation in which rural places are different...
Missing Links in Labour Geography
1st Edition
By Ann Cecilie Bergene, Sylvi B. Endresen
September 09, 2016
Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour in general and the organizations of the labour movement in particular can be refined and redefined. Issues of agency, power and collective ...
Making Connections: The Long-Distance Bus Industry in the USA
1st Edition
By Margaret Walsh
August 11, 2000
An examination of the varied paths of the American inter-city bus industry from its origins in the second decade of the 20th century to deregulation in 1982. This sector of transport has been much neglected by historians and this book seeks to uncover a range of useful and pertinent information to ...