Linking Industries Across the World: Processes of Global Networking (The Dynamics of Economic Space) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 075464426X ISBN 13: 9780754644262

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005

Synopsis

This book examines how regional industries use different networks on various geographical scales in order to withstand increasing competition in a globalising world. It argues that new forms of global governance of networked industries are emerging. In particular in those areas that have only recently been incorporated into the global economy such as Eastern Europe, Asia and Southern Africa. The book addresses a number of issues, including the different forms of institutional arrangements that contribute to the formation of heterogeneous global industrial networks. It also raises the issue of national institutions that still matter in network formation. The focus of the book is on how to improve regional and sectoral competitiveness in a global context and it suggests this is best achieved by a close analysis of global linkages, an evolutionary perspective on processes taking place, and a more differentiated view on globalisation.

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About the Author

Claes G. Alvstam is Professor at the Department of Geography, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Goteborg University, Sweden. Professor Eike W. Schamp is Professor at the Department of Economic and Social Geography, Johann Wolfgang-Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 075464426X
• ISBN 13: 9780754644262
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 334
• Editor: Alvstam Claes G., Schamp Eike W.