A Requiem for Corporate Geography: New Directions in Industrial Organization, the Production of Place and the Uneven Development

1989 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Walker
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Organization ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
New Directions

Combined and Uneven Development in the Men's Clothing Industry

1983 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 522-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Organization ◽  
World War I ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
Clothing Industry ◽  
Variable Component ◽  
World War ◽  
Secondary Sector ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Two Sectors

By the 1920s the production of men's clothing was clearly divided into two sectors. The first consisted of a relative handful of large firms, technologically and organizationally sophisticated and engaged in the manufacture of better-quality garments. The “secondary sector” included a great many small and technically more primitive enterprises producing mainly lower-priced and lower-quality clothing. In this article, Dr. Fraser examines the development of the industry from the period following the Civil War through the post-World War I era in order to explain why this dualistic industrial structure emerged. In so doing, he draws on a thesis developed by Michael Piore and Alfred Chandler regarding the relationship between industrial organization and the structure of the market. Fraser argues that the expansion of the mass market does not necessarily lead to the concentration of production. It may, on the contrary, and especially in those cases where demand is particularly unstable, encourage the growth of a “secondary sector” whose minimal fixed investment makes it well-suited to handle the more variable component of demand.

scholarly journals The trouble with global production networks

2020 ◽  
pp. 0308518X2097272
Author(s):  
Henry Wai-chung Yeung
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Organization ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Development Outcomes

Some sympathetic critics have recently found trouble with the latest iteration of the global production networks theory (GPN 2.0) developed in economic geography. I term these immanent critiques “GPN trouble” and address them in this Exchanges paper in relation to GPN 2.0’s conceptualization of value and risk and its perceived “missing” elements of the state, labour, and so on. Reiterating briefly its core tenet, I first demonstrate GPN 2.0’s modest role as a meso theory of industrial organization and economic development in an interconnected world economy. I argue that empirical analysis based on GPN 2.0 must open up the “black box” of production networks in order to evaluate the causal links between network dynamics and uneven development outcomes. Second, I show how understanding these causal links can provide better answers to the crucial question of “in what sense a GPN problem?” Addressing both issues appropriately will likely reduce the sort of “GPN trouble” one might encounter in future research on global economic restructuring during and after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sociocultural memory development research drives new directions in gadgetry science

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Van Bergen ◽  
John Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Memory Development ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Cross Cultural Research

Abstract Sociocultural developmental psychology can drive new directions in gadgetry science. We use autobiographical memory, a compound capacity incorporating episodic memory, as a case study. Autobiographical memory emerges late in development, supported by interactions with parents. Intervention research highlights the causal influence of these interactions, whereas cross-cultural research demonstrates culturally determined diversity. Different patterns of inheritance are discussed.

Behavioural alcohol research: new directions or more of the same?

Addiction ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 92 (11) ◽  
pp. 1411-1422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony P. Shakeshaft ◽  
Jenny A. Bowman ◽  
Rob W. Sanson-Fisher
Keyword(s):  
New Directions

New Directions in Multinomial Modeling

2009 ◽  
Vol 217 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Stahl ◽  
Thorsten Meiser
Keyword(s):  
Multinomial Modeling ◽  
New Directions
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