Leadership Strategies, Economic Activity, and Interregional Interaction: Social Complexity in Northeast China. Gideon Shelach

2001 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-228
Author(s):  
Yun Kuen Lee
2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Pool

AbstractThe two decades since the publication of Regional Perspectives on the Olmec have seen a great expansion of basic archaeological research in the “Olmec heartland” region of Mexico's southern Gulf lowlands as well as important new work on Formative period interregional interaction and its effects on local economies and polities. Olmec research, however, has not achieved as prominent a place as it merits in comparative research on the evolution of social complexity. In this essay I review this work and make some suggestions for future research directions.


The modern world is on the threshold of transition to the sixth technological mode, which will cause tremendous shifts in the economy around the world. The transition to the sixth technological mode will entail the emergence of new branches of the economy and the dying out of some of those that are functioning now. As a result of the transition, the principles of conducting economic activity will also change, due to changes in the resource base of industries, as well as the principles of management activity. This paper identifies the problems associated with the transition to the new technological mode, and also proposes an approach to managing this process. The paper considers the hypothesis that there is a direct relationship between the level of technical complexity of the product produced and the degree of dependence on the interregional interaction. The paper considers interregional interaction as one of the fundamental factors of the economic success of the new technological mode. Interregional "cluster cubes" are defined as the institutional basis for building the economy of the new technological mode.


Author(s):  
G. C. Harcourt ◽  
P. H. Karmel ◽  
R. H. Wallace
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