This article analyses three recent shifts in what called the geography of "Big Things", meaning the contemporary functions and adaptability of modern city centre architecture. We periodise the three styles conventionally into the fashionable "Starchitecture" of the 1990s, the repurposed...

In her study of "Surveillance Capitalism", Shoshana Zuboff cites Google´s parent firm Alphabet´s legal customer-purchase agreement for the parent firm´s Nest thermostats. These impose "oppressive privacy and security consequences" requiring sensitive information to be shared through...

The aim of this paper is to attempt to understand why the popular academic and policy field of promoting, studying and evangelising "entrepreneurship" should have been associated with great success but, in the past twenty years or more in many advanced economies, so much failure. From the US to...

This paper brings together two related bodies of theory that assist understanding of processes of socio-technical system change on the global scale. These are, first, the Global Value Chain perspective (GVC) that has now mutated into Global Production Networks (GPN) and, more recently, Global...

This paper offers an account of the recent economic slowdown in the growth trajectory formerly enjoyed by South Korea as one of the first “Asian Tigers”. Indicators are provided that, unlike the others, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan that have continued their upward profile, South Korea has...

This paper compares and contrasts three disruptive models of potential and actual new kinds of spatial planning. These include “seasteading”, “smart neighbourhoods” and “renewable spatial systems”. Each is labelled with distinctive discursive titles, respectively: “Attention...

In this contribution, the interest is in three things, arising from a project on 'dark' F-KIBS clusters. This has already resulted in critical papers on management consultancy and accounting 'assemblages' in which such clusters are embedded (Cooke, 2003b, Cooke, 2023a). Questions posed are:...

This contribution develops critique from analysing forms of misconduct by knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) firms, especially the largest, globally located and client-interactive on all five continents. Management consultancy infractions range from supplying spurious advice, to...

We propose an international economic agenda to overcome the growth limits of capitalism that can be supported by the United Nations. Sustainable Environment based global goals should be added to sustainable economy. For this, we propose dynamic balance between three sub-economies such as open...

This paper focuses on the climate change challenge faced by Central & Eastern European countries both those inside the European Union and those outside it. They have enormous energy intensity and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, mainly from energy production, which is oil, and worse,...