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Autor:
Peter Dicken
The definitive text on globalization, this book provides an accessible, jargon-free analysis of how the world economy works and its effects on people and places. Peter Dicken synthesizes the latest ideas and empirical data to blaze a clear path throu
Autor:
Peter Dicken
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International Social Science Journal. 49:77-89
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Commodity Chains and World Cities
This article offers a sympathetic critique of recent attempts to forge a dialogue between Global Commodity Chain (GCC) and World City Network (WCN) approaches to global economic change. While broadly supportive of the endeavour, we make three observa
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Journal of Economic Geography. 8:271-295
Understanding and conceptualizing the complexities of the contemporary global economy is a challenging but vitally important task. In this article, we critically evaluate the potential of one interpretive framework—the global production networks (G
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World Development. 34:520-540
Summary The local formation, and benefits, of industrial clusters have received considerable research attention during the past decade. We argue that the existing literature has underestimated the role of external economies of collective bargaining a
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 29:468-484
Recent literature concerning regional development has placed significant emphasis on local institutional structures and their capacity to ‘hold down’ the global. Conversely, work on inter-firm networks – such as the global commodity chain appro
Autor:
Peter Dicken, Sally Randles
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Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 36:2011-2032
This paper combines recent advances which appreciate the ontological intricacies of scale; with the (re)turn of institutional perspectives on social and economic life and its governance. The authors use these perspectives to understand better questio
Autor:
Peter Dicken
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Progress in Human Geography. 28:507-515
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Urban Geography. 25:390-407
Recent advances in telecommunications technologies have initiated debates on the changing balance between centralizing and decentralizing forces driving economic activities. The literature reveals that new information and telecommunication technologi