Promoting New Telecom Infrastructures examines how current telecom infrastructures are transforming from dedicated networks supporting either voice, data or broadcasting services to converged networks that support a wide variety of communication services, often denoted as Next Generation...

Responding to academic interest in the economic geographies of financial bubbles and crashes, this article examines the British experience of the 2007–2009 global banking crisis. It adopts a culturally informed geographical political economy approach that explores why institutions most...

D<sc>awley</sc> S., M<sc>arshall</sc> N., P<sc>ike</sc> A., P<sc>ollard</sc> J. and T<sc>omaney</sc> J. Continuity and evolution in an old industrial region: the labour market dynamics of the rise and fall of Northern Rock, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The Northern Rock mortgage bank was a high-profile casualty of the credit crunch in 2007. An...

RICHARDSON R., BELT V. and MARSHALL N. (2000) Taking calls to Newcastle: the regional implications of the growth in call centres, Reg. Studies 34, 357-369. The growth of white-collar jobs in call centres has been a significant feature of the last decade. Local and regional economic development...

The Northern Rock mortgage bank was a high profile casualty of the credit crunch in 2007. A longitudinal investigation focused on the redundancy and resettlement of employees at the bank provides a case study of the labour market impact of the banking crisis on the North East of England. An...

Public sector relocation from capital cities to reduce costs and ameliorate regional disparities has been a high profile but little researched government policy. The paper outlines the reasons for the growth of interest in public sector relocation in Europe, and then compares UK and Irish...

Marshall J. N., Bradley D., Hodgson C., Alderman N. and Richardson R. (2005) Relocation, relocation, relocation: assessing the case for public sector dispersal, Regional Studies 39 , 767-787. The paper assesses the case for public sector relocation from capital cities using evidence from...

This article exarnres the char-crcter c.f cull centres, which ut-euttractirzg considerable interest among economic cleveloprnen agencies seeking to attract inward irzvestment. The paper examines the type of eniployment provided in call centres, their locational requirenzents ancl their wider-...