The distinguished contributors advance the current research frontier in three novel directions which focus on: the role of human capital and talent for creativity, entrepreneurship and regional development; the role of institutions for the behaviour of firms and entrepreneurs; and the influence...

In this working paper, I argue that the ways in which communities engage in strategies of contention are mediated by what I call ‘subsoil imaginaries’: how peoples and communities imagine and give meaning to the subsoil and its extraction. In so doing, I approach the subsoil as a site on and...

This contribution argues that international organizations such as the World Bank are often overlooked in studies of global value chains, even though they can fundamentally influence value chains in the food economy. One of the ways in which the World Bank for instance impacts on such value...