Recently added articles from Economic Geography:

Relational Economic Geography: A Partial Understanding or a New Paradigm?

Jan 01, 2008; Sunley, Peter ... abstract Relational approaches in economic geography have grown in popularity and influence, but have not been critically evaluated or discussed. This article argues that poststructural and network-based versions of relational economic geography undoubtedly open up new research issues ...

Participation in Export Markets and Productivity of Plants in Los Angeles, 1987-1997

Jan 01, 2008; Breau, Sébastien; Rigby, David ... abstract This article investigates the relationship between the productivity of plants and participation in export markets in the greater Los Angeles area using unpublished plant-level data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Research Database. Two key questions are examined: (1) ...

Innovation and Peripherality: An Empirical Comparative Study of SMEs in Six European Union Member Countries

Jan 01, 2008; Copus, Andrew; Skuras, Dimitris; Tsegenidi, Kyriaki ... abstract This article examines the rates of innovative activity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in central areas and equally developed but less accessible areas in six European Union member states. The probability of innovating is well predicted by the observable ...

Alliance-Driven Governance: Applying a Global Commodity Chains Approach to the U.K. Biotechnology Industry

Jan 01, 2008; Birch, Kean ... abstract As the economy has globalized, it has also regionalized, which has led to the integration of different spaces across different scales. A number of theories contend that the endogenous assets of these locations provide them with the means to compete in this globalizing economy, ...

The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy

Jan 01, 2008; Gertler, Meric S ... The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy By AnnaLee Saxenian. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. In many ways, this book builds on AnnaLee Saxenian's celebrated and remarkably successful 1994 monograph, Regional Advantage (Saxenian 1994), bringing the ...

Clusters and Regional Development: Critical Reflections and Explorations

Jan 01, 2008; Bathelt, Harald ... Clusters and Regional Development: Critical Reflections and Explorations Edited by Björn Asheim, Philip Cooke, and Ron Martin. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. A field of substantial debate, which has been key to the development of economic geography, is that of understanding and ...

Relocating Global Cities: From the Center to the Margins

Jan 01, 2008; Robinson, Jennifer ... Relocating Global Cities: From the Center to the Margins Edited by M. Mark Amen, Kevin Archer, and M. Martin Bosman. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. This is an exemplary edited collection. It has a set of interesting and well-written articles by scholars from different ...

Knowledge Flows in European Industry

Jan 01, 2008; Glückler, Johannes ... Knowledge Flows in European Industry Edited by Yannis Caloghirou, Anastasia Constantelou, and Nicholas S. Vonortas. London: Routledge, 2006. In March 2000, the European Council declared as its policy goal to become the most dynamic knowledge economy in the world. This so-called Lisbon ...

The Social Sources of Financial Power: Domestic Legitimacy and International Financial Orders

Jan 01, 2008; Wójcik, Dariusz ... The Social Sources of Financial Power: Domestic Legitimacy and International Financial Orders By Leonard Seabrooke. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 2006. This book argues that if the state undertakes positive financial reform on behalf of lower-income groups (LIGs, defined as ...

Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective

Jan 01, 2008; Townsend, Anthony ... Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective By Manuel Castells, Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, Jack Linchuan Qiu, and Araba Sey. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007. It would not be hard to construct a compelling argument that the spread of mobile communications has been the most ...

The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism

Jan 01, 2008; Jonas, Andrew E G ... The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism By Jason Hackworth. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 2007. Lately, neoliberalism and the accompanying spatial process of neoliberalization have preoccupied economic and urban geographers ....

Politics, Products, and Markets: Exploring Political Consumerism Past and Present

Jan 01, 2008; Hamilton, Trina ... Politics, Products, and Markets: Exploring Political Consumerism Past and Present Edited by Michele Micheletti, Andreas Follesdal, and Dietlind Stolle. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2006. Politics, Products, and Markets, a collection generated by an international seminar ...