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This timely and fascinating book illustrates how applied geography can contribute in a multitude of ways to assist …
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Despite overstated claims of their ‘global’ homogeneity, ubiquity and contribution to ‘flattening’ spatial differences, the geographies of brands and branding actually do matter. This vibrant collection provides a comprehensive reference point for the emergent area of...
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The volume begins with an Introduction, followed by a set of three papers in Part Two examining European urban competitiveness from the standpoints of measurement and policy. This section also provides a case study of the cities of one country – Italy – from which the reader can...
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nature of creative city theorizing, which encompasses urban economics, economic geography, social psychology, urban sociology …
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Covering both qualitative and quantitative topics, the expert contributors in this Handbook explore fundamental issues of scientific logic, methodology and methods, through to practical applications of different techniques and approaches in migration research.
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Despite overstated claims of their ‘global’ homogeneity, ubiquity and contribution to ‘flattening’ spatial differences, the geographies of brands and branding actually do matter. This vibrant collection provides a comprehensive reference point for the emergent area of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011174319
dimension of MNE behaviour and activity that has been relatively under-researched – namely the geography of the multinational … geography is becoming increasingly important for MNEs and, in turn, MNEs are becoming progressively more important for economic … geography. The pivot on which this vital relationship turns is the creation, diffusion and management of new knowledge. …
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This unique Handbook examines the impacts on, and responses to, economic geography explicitly from the perspective of … approach allows the authors to explain why the economic geography of these different industries exhibits such particular and …
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Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and complex discussion of the modern city, this book outlines the dynamics of what the author calls the third wave of urbanization, characterized by global capitalism’s increasing turn to forms of...
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Increasing numbers of free trade and economic partnership agreements have been concluded among many countries in East Asia, and economic integration has progressed rapidly on both a de facto and de jure basis. However, as the authors of this book argue, integration may intensify regional...
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