In this article, we review recent developments in the extensive literature on territorially embedded production systems in the developed world, with a particular eye towards changes that have (or have not) occurred over the last decade. Improvements in transportation and communication...

The article argues that organizational sociology would do well to revisit James March's famed imagery of the business firm as a political coalition in light of today's decentralized production regimes. Specifically, we show that the increased tendency of firms to coordinate the design and making...