Remaking the global economy : economic-geographical perspectives / / edited by Jamie Peck and Henry Wai-Chung Yeung

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910809393603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : SAGE, c2003
• ISBN: 0-7619-4898-8; 1-280-36917-5; 9786610369171; 1-4129-3314-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource ([xii], 256 p.) : ill
• Altri autori (Persone): PeckJamie; YeungHenry Wai-Chung
• Disciplina: 338.91
• Soggetti: Economic geography; Globalization; International economic relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-252) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Making Global Connections: A Geographer's Perspective; Chapter 2 - 'Placing' Firms: Grounding the Debate in the 'Global' Corporation; Chapter 3 - Globalization, Transnationalism and the Asia-Pacific; Chapter 4 - The Marginalization of Everywhere? Emerging Geographies of Emerging Markets; Chaptter 5 - The Globalization of Environmental Management: International Investment in the Water, Wastewater and Solid Waste Industries; Chapter 6 - The Spatial Life of Things: The Real World of Practice within the Global FirmChapter 7 - Spaces of Corporate Learning; Chapter 8 - The Might of 'Might': How Social Power is Being Refigured; Chapter 9 - Beyond the Cluster - Local Milieus and Global Connections; Chapter 10 - Making Global Rules: Globalization or Neoliberalization?; Chapter 11 - Globalization: Faustian Bargain, Development Saviour or More of the Same? The Case of the Developing World and the Emerging Internationa Trade Regime; Chapter 12 - 'Glocalization' as a State Spatial Strategy: Urban ; Entrepreneurialism and the New Politics of Uneven Development in Western EuropeChapter 13 - Global Production Systems and European Integration: De-Regionalizing, Re-Regionalizing and Re-Scaling Production Systems in Europe; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This text offers a state-of-the-art survey of geographical perspectives on the restructuring and reorganization of the global economy. With contributions from leading figures in the globalization debate, it explores the latest thinking and research across a range of interrelated issues.