This paper examines the preparation for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, and links it to debates on state rescaling and urban entrepreneurialism in megaprojects. It is argued that the Olympic megaproject in Sochi follows a model of <i>state dirigisme </i>which accords a salient role to...

Seit Aufkommen des neuen Informations- und Kommunikationsmediums Internet wird über dessen Innovationsgrad und Anwendungsnutzen ebenso leidenschaftlich gestritten wie über dessen zukünftige Diffusionsaussichten. Den euphorischen Befürwortern, die dem Internet eine schier unaufhaltsame...

As a consequence of the changing conditions of doing business, we can observe the emergence of an increasing number of industrial and company-specific codes of conduct, as well as social and environmental standards. This paper considers these initiatives as being self-regulating governance...

The purpose of this paper is the discussion of the environmental effects of a free-floating car-sharing system operating in Ulm, Germany. The system, called car2go, allows users to take and leave vehicles at any point within the city limits. Thus opposed to traditional car-sharing, there are no...

With the increasing number and impact of events hosted by cities, understanding the nature of popular support for them and the resulting urban transformations is a crucial task. I examine residents’ perceptions of the preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, asking how support...

This article proposes that economic geography would benefit from a closer consideration of the topological multiplicities of power, that is, the multiple contending configurations of networks that make power a precarious accomplishment through creating constant overflows. It develops this...

Exhibiting a highly divisive agenda postmodernism has created profound chasms across scientific communities. In development studies its radical impetus has translated into the postdevelopment perspective which violently repudiates the modernist development project. This paper crystallises two...

This paper presents a robust network design model for the supply of blood during and after disasters. A practical optimization model is developed that can assist in blood facility location and allocation decisions for multiple post-disaster periods. The application of the proposed model is...

Traditional intra-firm cost accounting tools are not appropriate in the context of supply chain management, as there are no standards for the definition and composition of costs. This prohibits exchange and comparison of cost data among different supply chain members. Against this background,...

By means of the Delphi method, the study reveals structural and technological issues on the firm level as well as national policies as most relevant barriers of food supply chains in Africa. Second-rank issues are international trade and technology transfer as well as supply chain management....