The Associational Economy

ISBN-13: 9780198290186 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 264 str.

Philip Cooke; Kevin Morgan; Kevin Morgan

Opis

Cooke and Morgan explore important issues of corporate reorganization in the context of heightened global competition, focusing upon how firms associate with regional milieu. In-depth studies of inter-firm and firm-agency interactions are presented for four European regions: Baden-Wurttemberg and Emilia-Romagna as accomplished regional economies; Wales and the Basque Country as learning regions. The book is theoretically informed by an evolutionary economics perspective and draws policy conclusions which emphasize the importance of decentralized industrial policy in support of both corporate and regional economic development ambitions. It concludes that the associational economy may be the third way between state and market coordination of modern economies.

Recenzje

...important book. ... The presentation of four regional case studies ... is inserted within a robust theoretical framework./ What appears here is the state-of-the-art on the multilevel approach to industrial and developmental policies.

O autorze

Philip Cooke is editor of the journal European Planning Studies.